Punishments, injuries, and deaths—including from heat—on TDCJ farms are more hidden than they were in the years following convict leasing.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    13·
    5 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.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    10·
    5 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.

    • JPAKx4
      3·
      5 months ago

      I 100% learned that in 7th grade. I’m in a blue county if that helps, but I definitely knew.