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 ...
"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 ...