Report: Land for $9.4B complex could hold 7 slave cemeteries

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Land bought for a Taiwan company's planned $9.4 billion plastics complex may hold as many as seven slavecemeteries — five more than previously thought, local activists said yesterday.The 146-page report from Coastal Environments Inc. said the 2,500-acre site holds five previously unknownareas that archaeologists concluded may hold the graves of slaves, in addition to two mapped in the late 1800s.A community group called Rise St. James sent a letter about the report yesterday to St. James Parish Councilmembers in hopes of convincing them to revoke permits for the Formosa Plastics Group member called FG LALLC, said founder Sharon Lavigne.