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The Sugar Land 95 are found under a school construction site
2018
Telfair, Sugar Land, Texas
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Crews building a Fort Bend ISD career centre in the Telfair development turned up 95 unmarked graves in 2018. The dead were convict laborers leased by the state to the sugar planters Cunningham and Ellis between 1878 and 1909, a system that put mostly Black prisoners back into forced field work after 1865. The youngest was about 14 and the oldest about 74. The site now carries a state historical marker and the county has funded a memorial.
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