A doomed fight for freedomWoodland Plantation in La Place, Louisiana, the site of the largest enslaved revolt in U.S. history. They overtook the house, killed Andry’s adult son, and marched downriver toward New Orleans, adding recruits from adjacent plantations. More than 200 years later, this stretch of plantation country is known as Cancer Alley for its densely clustered fossil fuel and petrochemical plants. Louisiana counts as many as 378 industrial facilities along the 186-mile winding stretch of Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Many of the facilities overlook small, minority communities, where cancer risk from petrochemical pollution is in the 99th percentile – in other words, sky-high.