NEW ORLEANS — Community and environmental groups have held a Juneteenth ceremony at a Louisiana site archaeologists have described as probably a cemetery for enslaved Africans Americans when the land was a plantation.
Organizer Sharon Lavigne said afterward that she felt like “the ancestors were shouting for joy in heaven.”
The site is part of a much larger one where a local member of Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group has begun construction on a $9.4 billion chemical complex.
Father Vincent Dufresne of the Catholic church in nearby Convent prayed for those buried there.
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