Fortune's Bones-The Manumission Requiem

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Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award

For young readers comes a poetic commemoration of the life of an 18th-century slave, from a past poet laureate and three-time National Book Award finalist

For over 200 years, the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut has housed a mysterious skeleton. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the bones were those of an enslaved man named Fortune, who was owned by a local doctor. After Fortune’s death, the doctor rendered the bones.

Further research revealed that Fortune had married, had fathered four children, and had been baptized later in life. His bones suggest that after a life of arduous labor, he died in 1798 at about the age of 60. The Manumission Requiem is Marilyn Nelson’s poetic commemoration of Fortune’s life. Detailed notes and archival photographs enhance the reader’s appreciation of the poem.

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Product # 3532506
ISBN-13 9781932425123
ISBN-10 1932425128
Author Marilyn Nelson
Grade Level 1-4
Interest Level 1-4
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Guided Reading Level Y
Lexile Level NP
Publisher Boyds Mill Press
Page Count 40
Multicultural African American