Finding the Lost Graves of Enslaved People in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ | NYT
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Thousands of enslaved people are buried in Louisiana’s industrial corridor, but their locations have remained a mystery - until now. Using historical maps and aerial photos, we can locate these possible graves.
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What an incredible endeavor. This is important work. The lives of these men and women who are buried in these unmarked graves cannot be forgotten. For too long, too many people have made incredible efforts to erase these people from our history and we owe it to ourselves and our future to make sure that never happens. This is so interesting. I wonder if there is a way to help these projects?
Applying similar techniques to find buried indigenous children in Canada's residential schools.
What a nightmare
They have to use ground radar because the thing about the mass graves at the Schools is they were secret. They can’t use the maps to show where they could be buried because no one marked their graves.
Two horrible situations where lives have been cut way to short in the name of greed, inhumanity, and racism. Fortunately they have records in Louisiana, where there might be cemeteries, here in Canada they hid it all. It’ll be slow moving with the ground radar as they have to check every possible space around where the schools were but hopefully they will find the children from all the schools.
@@jeffreycater5447 I'm horrified
@@jeffreycater5447 who did it? Why did they do it?
@@contambrah look up Indian Residential Schools Canada, it’s really a lot to go into here. There is a lot of distressing things, so just caution if you don’t want to read it.
These people are the real preservers of southern history
Public television needs to broadcast this.
Atleast preserve their graves and respect the dead. Who would've thought an old tree amidst an open field would hide such a secret. Also great documentary from NY Times aswell!
Well done, and great information. I applaud the people doing this difficult work to find these graves and get these oil companies to Respect the gravesites of enslaved people. Their graves are as sacred as anyone else’s. There should be federal legislation to protect these graveyards just as Native American burial sites are protected. history needs to be told. I imagine That little white button was a precious item to its owner as it was so difficult for enslaved people to have any property at all, anything that they could call their own. Thank you for posting this.
At least Shell eventually did something and allows people on the sites. It would be kind of nice if someone would comment on what we can do exactly to help if we don't live in the state. :(
maybe u should start a petition for the burial sites
Thank you NY Times for posting this on RUclips.
Oh my gosh I love forensic architecture. Their video on the Beirut explosion is incredible
Yeah no, this is more important than freaking companies. I don't understand how they need to fight for this. Stupid inhumane laws.
This is amazing storytelling! So glad this came across my Recommended feed!
Incredible story brought to light. It is touching to view a single button, a colony of trees by a river, and remnants of crosses that have been crushed into the earth, marking the burials of ancestors whose families live within miles of their literal ground breaking relatives. A respectful and noteworthy story telling.
Too much Louisiana history, both planation houses, battlefields and slave cemeteries have been destroyed by outside big money who have not invested in preserving local heritage and culture.
Perhaps a monumental can be dedicated to the memory of those whose unknown graves have been lost forever. I have seen similar ones to the graves under the waters of Toledo Bend Reserve and unmarked on the plains of North Dakota.
*I've seen mass graves from the holocaust in Europe and this gives me similar eerie vibes. Nameless, faceless graves. So sad when people are forgotten and treated as if they were meaningless in history 😢*
They were alive and treated the same way..
@@debbiemarquis3231 are you suggesting slaves were treated just as bad as Holocaust victims???
Yes both groups were dehumanized and treated as animals.
@@mr16325 are you suggesting they weren't?? Honey they were treated worse than dirt, if you need a refresher I've got one here for you:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_the_enslaved_in_the_United_States
@Ben Yosep your insane or not educated
GPS coordinates of the grave mentioned around 3:15: 30.124806, -90.927718 (paste it into Google Maps to see where it is, it's between Baton Rouge and New Orleans).
You are not forgotten, you will always remain in our history!
Wow...thank you for posting this video 😞
My ppl, Native ppl, have lost countless burial sites, burial grounds, sacred sites, for decades upon decades....till this very day 2021.
Extraordinary work by these researchers and activists.
This is incredible work! 🙌🏽 We should lobby these companies to get a response from them.
Great documentary as always
Very well made video, thanks for spreading awareness
thank you for covering this
You know they dug up bones while digging that retention pond and I guess didn't report it or they're would be some documentation
Wonderful sound and visual
I will view to the end
Thank goodness for these people or so much of this history would have disappeared.
And this is history of The Great America. NICE
Slaves were also distributed throughout Latin America and the Caribbean
@@desireesalas5820 And throughout the Ottoman Empire
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Do Latina America and the Caribbean call themselves the greatest regions of the world and chastise other countries on their human rights abuses?
@@makaelaischillin in Ottoman Empire they were just human like others, they had just to work a little more than others.
Christianity by Colonialism &
Isla by force both are same.
Our heavenly Father knows where each and everyone is.
Why bring a divisive topic into a wholesome video? Slightly unnecessary
@@mr16325 how is death wholesome?
He will call, the dead will answer.
Amazing
¡SIN PALABRAS!"...😣
Phenomenal story of our history!! These sites must be identified and preserved for all of us.
This is why it makes sense to document these things. So when curious people want to dig up their remains for some strange reason, it is way easier and doesn't destroy tons of land.
This should be brought up to larger audiences!
This is sacred work
Well how long has the search been going on?
Am so sorry my black brother s and sisters who died in slavery
From a French point of view, this is so disturbing..
How's that?
@@L.Spencer Because of the fact that huge companies destroy occupied land (here graveyards) without any law restriction... this is unbelievable in France lol
I'm here hope to find my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother. She somewhere in Louisiana. My roots are here. My great, great, great, grandfather. Moved to Texas. There I have 5 generations.
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These ppl need to be set free..
Those plants don’t giv af bout my ppl
i live in this parish and i always believed what I know understand to be true regarding those patches of trees in the middle of fields, that they were the unmarked graves of my people/
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Was just for that area like they can buy everything can we just buy that one particular area
ya know what else causes cancer? too much sunlight
But you know, some conservatives feel bad on the inside if we study history so it's not allowed.
No we don’t, our party freed those people! The Union and the Conservative party won the brutal war and made steps to equality in this time
@@mr16325 The Democrats were the conservative party back in those days.
@@dmanvell the names didn’t switch, what are you talking about? Abe Lincoln was in my party the republicans, and most anti segregation activists were republicans. You can’t just change history and say” the sides switched” when it doesn’t go your way
@@mr16325 the parties switched
*retching sounds*
The looking glass hides its fatal shards.
This is where Jay Z, Beyonce and the like need to invest their $$$
OKLAHOMA my Guess 🌸
she sounds like Beyonce !!!
5:14 please get your goldfish a bigger tank, this is abuse
Abhramic Cults are doing peaceful things.
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First comment here.
and you didn't say anything interesting 🤔
That's what you are taking away from this? That you are first? That you matter, not the dead?
Imagine being so ignorant and selfish to comment '' First'' on a video of such levity?
You are a disgrace.
Asians in California often faced the same fate. Go report on that, NYT.
Not really, how dare you?
What? Not even close? Where is your source. Asians can face racism, but we never faced a genocide on the mainland.
@@theusa4052 this isn’t genocide in the video either
No they didn't. You are mixing two kinds of racist systemic oppression and doing all of the victims an injustice.
Oh... and Dude... we can see your face in the one video you posted. Are you trying to speak for others here?
#Shame on you NYT
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I live on river road off hwy 1 by all this area. I can tell everyone 100 percent for a fact that graves of all people of color are lost because of the river. Flooding.
One more day until white history month spread the word
we don't need a white history month
Who gives a dam
You sound just like ur ancestors. Cmon Mike you gotta be better than that.
@@dreskie6993 not just we need to stop blocking land for graves of slave but for all people because world population is increasing we can't book a spot for dead people forever .
You apparently- or you wouldn't feel the urge to show off.
@@leonardodavinci7524 don't be daft. This is not a small tiny town in the italian hills you read about in an article about a movie.
Lol what makes people think that such history won't be repeated again and again. A lot of fueled tension is being built globally around this theme "Racism" and sadly those who are supposed to alleviate such tragedy are the ones igniting it.... hum hum 👉 *B/L/M* 👈
Oh no! this barren plot of land with a single tree on it, which may or may not have bodies under it, could potentially be turned into something useful as opposed to a graveyard nobody will ever visit?
Nothing GOOD can come from living in the past. Turn the page, STOP digging and look to the future.
- Rivers, streams, moves in one direction does it not?
Penny for your thoughts?...
Without the past there is no present. We define ourselves based on pased experiences both personal and those of a broader cultural consciousness. Cemeteries are the perfect example of proper rembrence for those who came before you and their struggles.
@@blastermanr6359 True, but this remembrance is unpopular with the majority of Americans. We acknowledge it, I get it, but the more digging, and keep forcing it down people's throat it's gonna rub people wrong. Here let me ask you this, do you see who's face is on the American dollar or dollars bills. Just as those idiots that pulled down Edward Colston statue, what is the value of American dollar to those protesters? Money shouldn't matter to them right? Every face on the American dollar has owned slaves at some point. Let the past rest, move on with life.
No thoughts... all you are getting is the block button.
@@hadoukenhadouken9219 Who cares if its unpopular with the mayority of americans. Its the RIGHT thing to do. Besides, its not hurting anyone.
history is always important. we cannot just stop researching the past because it makes us uncomfortable.