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Juneteenth at slave cemetery: loved, though names unknown

| June 22, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Community and environmental groups 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.

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