After the Civil War, the South’s economy, society, and government were in shambles. Southern state governments struggled to raise money to repair damaged infrastructure and to support new expenses ...
Fort Bend ISD trustees unanimously voted Monday to partner with Friends of the Sugar Land 95 to obtain more funding and support for the Sugar Land 95 Memorial Project. In 2018, Fort Bend ISD ...
SUGAR LAND, Texas — The lives of 95 convict laborers forced to work on Fort Bend County plantations after the Civil War will be forever memorialized historical marker telling their story. Their ...
In the early 1900s, dramatic stories of the abuse and wretched conditions of convict laborers began to be publicized through trials and newspaper accounts. The egregiousness of the violence and ...
"Portions of the text were previously published as 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Cuts Cordwood : Exploring Black Women's Lives and Labor in Georgia's Convict Camps, 1865-1917,' Labor : Studies in ...
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