If These Graves Could Talk

An excerpt from CNN -

Nearly 100 bodies found at a Texas construction site were probably black people forced into labor -- after slavery ended
By Jessica Campisi and Brandon Griggs

Months after a Texas school district broke ground on a new technical center, archaeologists there made a surprising discovery: the long-buried remains of 95 people.

The first remains were discovered in February in Sugar Land, a suburb southwest of Houston. And now officials have learned who these people probably were -- freed black people forced to work in convict labor camps.

For over a century, these graves were underground and untouched. But the finding that they likely held the remains of slaves, which researchers announced Monday, highlights an era that's largely forgotten in history -- a time when slavery was illegal, but many blacks were essentially still enslaved.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/us/bodies-found-construction-site-slavery-trnd/index.html