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— Photo from Lisa Anderson of the New York State Museum

Bringing the past to life: The faces of several of the 14 slaves whose remains were discovered in Colonie have been painstakingly recreated through facial reconstruction. The woman shown here was identified through skeletal analysis as having African ancestry, while DNA testing showed her maternal ancestry to have been Native American, possibly Micmac. Researchers believe she was probably of mixed African-Native American ancestry.