Slave who died in 1798 is finally buried

[Linda Anderson]

"A slave who died more than 200 years ago in Connecticut but was never buried was given an extraordinary funeral Thursday that included lying in state at the Capitol and calls for learning from his painful life.

"The enslaved man known as Mr. Fortune was buried in a cemetery filled with prominent citizens after a service at the Waterbury church where he had been baptized. Earlier in the day, his remains lay in state in the Capitol rotunda in Hartford."

http://www.ctpost.com/news/us/article/Co...to-5178931

[My Name Is Kate]

"Fortune was buried near contemporaries who never would have spoken to him or viewed him as human."

I wonder how he would feel about that.

[My Name Is Kate]

I thought it interesting that there is outrage and shock (and understandably so) that a Nazi war criminal was recently determined to have been buried in a mass Jewish grave, whereas the slave who is the topic of this thread was deliberately buried (several hundred years later, by people of his own race) among people who treated his race as though it were subhuman, and did not even have the decency to bury his body when he died, instead using it for study as though he were some laboratory rat.

http://rt.com/news/nazi-gestapo-jewish-cemetery-047/