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Fazendeville, Louisiana — The Black Town Erased for a Battlefield View
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They called it “progress,” but it was theft.
Fazendeville, Louisiana was a thriving Black community founded after the Civil War — born from freedom and built on ancestral land.
But in the 1960s, they forced families out to “restore” the nearby Chalmette battlefield.
They wanted a better view for tourists… so they sacrificed a living Black town.
This is how history buries us — under monuments, memorials, and lies.
But we remember. And we restore.
This is Echoes of Hoodoo.
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