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During a 2018 memorial event, Dorson William Purdy Jr., one of the descendants of the enslaved people of the Society of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, looks at a newly installed plaque on the former slave quarters, which remain on the sisters' property. (Society of the Sacred Heart/Linda Behrens)

Dorson William Purdy Jr., one of the descendants of the enslaved people of the Society of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, at a 2018 memorial event (Society of the Sacred Heart/Linda Behrens)