For 30 years\, Darryl Hambrick and his sis ter (who run the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville) hav e learned about and tracked down lost cemeteries of slaves in the region. These cemeteries are scattered along the Mississippi River\, where petroch emical plants now dominate the landscape. Through their research\, the duo found historians and archeologists working with landowners to honor and p reserve these gravesites before they are lost forever. Hambrick says these burial sites reveal how enslaved people lived and shed light where histor y has been silent.
\n&ldquo\;On a plantation\, this was your freedom . You didn&rsquo\;t get freedom until you were dead in your grave. There n eeds to be a place that&rsquo\;s protected in the memory of those people w ho were enslaved here\,&rdquo\; said Hambrick.
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