Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem

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Fortune's Bones
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by Marilyn Nelson. illus. Front Street, November 2004. $16.95.
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A stunning mix of powerful poetry and history honoring Fortune, a slave, whose body was dissected and rendered after his death and his skeleton studied by his master and then put on display in a museum.

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Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
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1-932425-12-8
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Book
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Monday, March 29, 2010 - 10:53
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Monday, March 29, 2010 - 10:53
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201
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