Book
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
- Published
- 2004
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Words
- 2125
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.6
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile code
- NP — non-prose
- Suggested reading age
- ages 12–17
Poems commemorate Fortune, an enslaved man who died in Connecticut in 1798 and whose skeleton was preserved for medical study for generations. Historical notes and photographs help reconstruct the life behind the bones and restore his humanity and name.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781932425123
- ISBN-10
- 1932425128
Tags
ALSC NotablesFamily Life-Death/DyingHistory-SlaveryNonfictionPeople-African AmericanPeople-Enslaved PeoplePoetryUnited States-ConnecticutVerse