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NOLA.com: Who was buried at site of proposed Louisiana plastics plant? New research points to enslaved people

New research from an environmental advocacy group seeking to identify some of those buried at the site of a proposed plastics plant along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish points to five enslaved people, ages 9 to 31, from the former Buena Visa plantation.