Punishments, injuries, and deaths—including from heat—on TDCJ farms are more hidden than they were in the years following convict leasing.
  • Flying Squid
    13•3 months ago

    Slavery, Texas Observer. Call it slavery. It may be legal, but it’s still slavery.

    Imagine how much more impact the headline would have been if it instead read: Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-Year History of Slavery Shrouded in Secrecy

    Because even “forced labor” doesn’t make it sound as bad as it actually is. Only one word does.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•3 months ago

    Something that is not taught in Texas History classes to seventh graders is that white illegal immigrants forced Texas to secede from Mexico because Mexico abolished slavery.