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[post_page_title]Finding a name[/post_page_title]
To make sure they worked with only facts, the experts decided to find the census of the community around the same time that the woman would have been alive.

Although this proved difficult because African American people did not have the right to vote and rarely made their way onto census reports, they eventually found a name that seemed to fit the description and the location of the woman. The name appeared on the 1850 census, which was the first census in New York’s history to include African Americans.