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Item Nr: B 107025 Title: Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
Grade Lvl: JS Author: Nelson, Marilyn
Length: 32 Prod/Pub: Front Street
Copyright: 2004 Series:
Book Type: FN Biographee:
Copies: 0 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  A series of poems on the life of Fortune, an 18th century African American slave in New England whose skeleton came too be an exhibit at Connecticut's Mattatuck Museum. Includes archival photos, reproductions, and Pamela Espeland's contextualizing notes and annotations. Coretta Scott King Honor book. AR 5.6. RC 9.3.

  Subjects:
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  65 - AMERICAN POETRY
  790 - AMERICAN POETRY--AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS
  1400 - AUTHOR, BLACK (BOOKS BY)
  871 - POETRY
  998 - SLAVERY