In Louisiana’s River Parishes, one museum is helping residents piece together their histories

The land in Louisiana’s River Parishes is populated with lost families. Unmarked graves of formerly enslaved people – sometimes totaling more than 1,000 in a single area – have been found in tree clusters in the middle of empty fields. In 2018, Shell Convent memorialized the Bruslie…

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