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As property, enslaved Africans were also often used without permission as guinea pigs in medical experiments. Mr. Fortune, an enslaved African who died in 1798, was buried in 2013. He was owned by a bone surgeon, Dr. Preserved Porter, who preserved Mr. Fortune’s skeleton by boiling the bones to study anatomy at a time when cadavers were taken overwhelmingly from the enslaved, servants, and prisoners. Black bodies were used without authorization in teaching and research in white medical schools.