Slave cemeteries remain unmarked, underwater in the Bonnet Carre Spillway

The tract of land, now periodically flooded, once housed at least four plantations even after the Civil War. Many of the formerly enslaved worked the land where they had been born, lived, and died.

[@TheMayhem0919]

His little snarky comment was not necessary!! "Not making any apologies for it....." makes me really think about how invested he is in this and if he actually gives a shit!!

[@skyjacksonA1]

He's a hell bound shit

[@davedforrest1914]

Them our ancestors, we speak for them

[@B1970T]

An awesome piece!

[@Finefunkyart]

This is amazing! Thanks for he truth! I’ve always known there is a slave cemetery in Algiers Point New Orleans, la now called The Delcazel Playground it saddens me there is NO marker and they built a play ground on top of it. .?! 😢 so sad!

[@justred5164]

The plan was never going to happen

[@jeaninen.george1544]

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[@armandomeraz8048]

He's not sad , he's just looking for smpathy and looking for attention . He didn't even know them . What a joke .

[@feliciabilyeu4311]

Bless your heart.

[@thesquid2794]

@armandomeraz - how dare you speak on a Chattel African slaves who suffered for the greed of Europeans white Americans to give America and the world it’s wealth and the culture America have. Go tell that to the Jewish people and ask you self would you say that to them. Pay what America owes, reparations! GTFOH!

[@2ndstreetmedia171]

It's people that didn't know their ancestors that fought in the Revolutionary War and Civil War and yet they have memorials for the free. But not for the enslaved. And you still think America wasn't built off of racism. You know you just pretend to be dumb.

[@paulellis628]

They are dead and gone and no amount of remembrance will bring them back. The construction and operations of the spillway provide a better service to those who live instead of whaling about ancestors you never knew. That boy is looking for sympathy and his fifteen minutes on the television. When the state of Mississippi built the Ross Barnett Reservoir, several communities and countless burial grounds were lost to the lake created by that project. You do not hear anyone ruminating about the loss of their ancestral burial grounds? The answer is no. The black community needs to move on and learn to pull their modern house in order instead of worrying about the past. Thirteen percent of the national population, but about ninety percent of the troublemakers. All one needs to do is look at the Orleans Parish docket and those incarcerated at Angola to prove my point. (rolls eyes)

[@DieHardValleyBoy1]

Move On???! Speak for yourself!!! How would you feel if you knew that land where your ancestors were buried was purposely flooded in disregard?! Whether or not if the purpose of the flooding was from an agricultural benefit… how dare you?! Im quite sure that the African American race did not ask to be transported across the Atlantic in shackles to a new and unfamiliar continent, to be enslaved,oppressed, defiled , humiliated, and looked upon as a simple animal so to speak. 400 years of countless generations have suffered the atrocities of the Caucasian race…and you talk as if that’s ancient history smh! So much has went on during those horrible times, I’m sure only a mere franction of it has been brought to light ! While it’s true that majority of the black race occupies southern prisons , but hey I wonder why?!! For one it’s a generational effort, and that has gone back ages to when a plantation owner would pit the house negro against the field negro, and make them at odds with each other, the jealousy and hate has only evolved to modern ways from wince. That’s the sole reason there is black on black crime! Progress takes time, and it won’t happen overnight. And for the record, the majority I know cannot and will not hold anyone breathing today accountable for things that happened a lifetime ago, we weren’t there, the same as they weren’t either, but it give ppl a sense of understanding the past, respectfully. You’re extremely reckless at the mouth I see, you might wanna humble yourself pal