Found and not forgotten: One descendant’s fight to honor the prison laborers who helped build Sugar Land
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A part of Sugar Land history is still waiting for its own preservation efforts to take shape: the 95 graves for African-American prison laborers subjected to the state’s convict-leasing system after the Civil War and forced to labor on the area's sugar cane plantations.
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Found and not forgotten: One descendant’s fight to honor the prison laborers who helped build Sugar Land
A part of Sugar Land history is still waiting for its own preservation efforts to take shape: the 95 graves for African-American prison laborers subjected to the state’s convict-leasing system after the Civil War and forced to labor on the area's sugar cane plantations.
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