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Envision Prince George’s Partners With Community To Commemorate “fortune’s Bones”

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Envision Prince George’s has partnered with the University of Maryland, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and several other local organizations to capture this riveting story of Fortune's Bones. Fortune was an enslaved African whose life did not end when he died in 1798. In life, Fortune served a doctor in post-Colonial Waterbury, Connecticut. After death, he was dissected by the Connecticut physician who owned him. His bones were pr