many names like jeffries, katherine, lily, susanna, harry, susan, rachel, violet, hannah, another susanna, marianne, jane and gabriel. and not just names but days when they were born, years when they were born. how they were related to each other. mothers and sons and daughters and into cases how they died. and then a second page went on to tell us about nancy, kate, jim and josh. to confirm in writing these were slaves that had belonged to samuel townsend of oyster bay. and so, at that point i did a whole year long exhibit talking about that slave bible and that led me too research other documents. i uncovered other enslaved people who are not in that record like john, william, jacob, priscilla, her son amos. and then to peoples whose records i found are individuals the record did not have a name. so i call those two folks the unnamed child and the unnamed man. now all of these people had a few things i could know about them, points in time when they were sold, when they were freed. no one had a full story of a whole life until i learned about elizabeth whose nickname was liz. just a word about this ima