{"id":33946,"date":"2013-09-13T03:19:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T23:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=33946"},"modified":"2013-09-13T03:19:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T23:19:26","slug":"slave-known-as-mr-fortune-whose-bones-were-boiled-and-preserved-for-medical-science-to-finally-get-a-full-burial-more-than-200-years-after-he-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=33946","title":{"rendered":"Slave known as Mr Fortune whose bones were boiled and preserved for medical science to finally get a full burial more than 200 years after he died"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"skeleton-Fortune\"<\/a>The bones of a slave known as Mr Fortune will be laid to rest today 215 years after his death.<\/p>\n

Steven R. Mullins, one of the organizers, said: ‘It’s a long overdue honor. We’re not just remembering one man. His body is representing all of the slaves that came over here and worked in this country.’<\/p>\n

Fortune was owned by Dr Preserved Porter on a farm in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died of a suspected broken neck in 1798.<\/p>\n

After his death Dr Porter, a bone specialist, had his skeleton boiled in order to preserve and study it.<\/p>\n

The remains were donated to a Waterbury museum in 1933 by a descendent of Dr Porter who referred to the skeleton as ‘Larry’.<\/p>\n

Since then the bones have been studied by scientists keen to learn more about Fortune and his life.<\/p>\n

So far scientists have established that Fortune was 5ft 5in tall and died aged roughly 55.<\/p>\n

Though the results have ruled out hanging as a cause of death, nobody knows exactly how Fortune broke his neck.<\/p>\n

He was never buried in case technology allowed more information to be extracted from his remians in the future, but now a CT scan of the bones has been taken meaning they can be studied without the need to keep them.<\/p>\n

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