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A Texas city discovered a mass grave of prison laborers. What should it do with the bodies?

  • Written by Andrea Roberts, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
After the Civil War, Texas's sugar cane plantations were still farmed by unpaid black laborers – prisoners forced to work for free in a system called 'convict leasing.' Author provided

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