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 ...
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 ...
A Sugar Land nonprofit calling for more efforts to memorialize the Sugar Land 95 has secured a $10,000 grant to create a mobile museum spotlighting the history of convict leasing in the area. The ...
The town ofSugar Land, Texasgets its name from the crop that made it rich and prosperous – sugarcane.But in 2018, while building a new school, a secret came to light. Construction crews uncovered a ...
"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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