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“Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.”
— Herodotus, in A. D. Godley, translator, Herodotus (1931), vol. 1, book 1, section 207, p. 261.
“O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 5, line 60.
“Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.”
— Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
“Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunæ, ante vesperum potest esse miserrimus.”
— Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
“Nihil est periculosius in hominibus mutata subito fortuna.”
— Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
“Miserrima est fortuna quæ inimico caret.”
— That is a very wretched fortune which has no enemy.

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Overview

Fortune ( – 1798) was an African-American slave who achieved posthumous notability over the transfer of his remains from a museum storage room to a state funeral. Life Under the laws of the 18th century American colonial period, Fortune, his wife Dinah, and their four children (Africa, Jacob, Mira, and Roxa) were the property of Dr. Preserved Porter, a physician based in Waterbury, Connecticut. Fortune owned the house he and his family lived in that was just outside of the town center on the Porter property. Fortune's Remains Fortune drowned in an accident in the Naugatuck River in 1798, and Dr. Porter dissected his body and preserved his skeleton for anatomic study. The doctor then opened a "School for Anatomy," which used Fortune's bone as the source of study. The anatomically inscribed skeleton was found in 1910 in a boarded up closet of the Porter house. The Porter family held Fortune's remains before donating them to the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, where they were on display through the 1970s, after which point they were put in storage.

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Fortune ( – 1798) was an African-American slave who achieved posthumous notability over the transfer of his remains from a museum storage room to a state funeral.

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