![The Imperial Prison Farm Cemetery has 31 marked graves of inmates and guards dating 1912-1943.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/a-fate-worse-than-slavery-unearthed-in-sugar-land-1.jpg)
Bodies of sugar cane workers recently discovered in Texas reveal gruesome details about the convict leasing system. By Brent Staples, The New York Times — The blood-drenched history that gave the city of Sugar Land, Tex., its name showed its face earlier this year, when a school construction crew discovered the remains of 95 African-Americans whose unmarked graves date back more than a century. The dead — some of whom may have…