...In recent months, the same site has been targeted by Greenfield Louisiana LLC for a grain terminal along the Mississippi River. The Banners, who live and work in the neighborhood, also lead a group called Stop the Wallace Grain Elevator. Many Wallace residents are descended from slaves on the nearby Whitney Plantation, which Millet schemed to sell to Formosa and which has since been turned into a slavery museum.
Pam Spees, a Center for Constitutional Rights attorney representing the Descendants Project, said the suit aims to "reach back into the past and right a wrong." ...
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