The Texas Historical Commission is honoring with a historical marker the 95 unmarked graves that Fort Bend ISD discovered in 2018 during the construction of a school. Archaeologists believe that the ...

More than seven years after construction crews uncovered the unmarked graves of 95 people forced into Texas' convict-leasing system, the Fort Bend County Commissioners Court this week approved a ...

Archeologists say that the remains of around 95 people recently discovered on a Texas construction site almost certainly belonged to African Americans essentially made to work as slaves after the ...

"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 ...