For eight hours the remains of 14 slaves were lying in state Friday in the formal hallway of the Schuyler Mansion, beneath a portrait of Gen. Philip Schuyler, the family patriarch and Revolutionary War hero whose family once enslaved them. The remains were contained in graceful wooden ossuaries, small-scale coffins decorated with African symbols and motifs created by volunteers that included woodworkers, local artists and fourth-graders at All Saints Academy. The slaves were given a place of honor just a few paces from where Founding Father Alexander Hamilton married the general's daughter, Elizabeth Schuyler, on Dec.