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In this June 17, 2015, photo, the grave of a man considered the first black male slave freed by Abraham Lincoln is shown at the Rochester State Hospital Cemetery in Rochester, Minn. William Henry Costley was just 10 months old in 1841 when a young Lincoln won a case before the Illinois Supreme Court that freed his mother Nance Legins-Costley from indentured servitude, a status tantamount to slavery. As her son, Costley was essentially a slave, too. Carl Adams published a book on Nance Legins-Costley, last year. After piecing together spellings that varied on William Costley's name, and pension and hospital records, Adams and his collaborators then used records at the Minnesota Historical Society to trace his grave to the cemetery of the now-closed Rochester State Hospital.(Scott Jacobson /The Rochester Post-Bulletin via AP)

In this June 17, 2015, photo, the grave of a man considered the first black male slave freed by Abraham Lincoln is shown at the Rochester State Hospital Cemetery in Rochester, Minn. William Henry Costley was just 10 months old in 1841 when a young Lincoln won a case before the Illinois Supreme Court that freed his mother Nance Legins-Costley from indentured servitude, a status tantamount to slavery. As her son, Costley was essentially a slave, too. Carl Adams published a book on Nance Legins-Costley, last year. After piecing together spellings that varied on William Costley's name, and pension and hospital records, Adams and his collaborators then used records at the Minnesota Historical Society to trace his grave to the cemetery of the now-closed Rochester State Hospital.(Scott Jacobson /The Rochester Post-Bulletin via AP)

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