WEST COLUMBIA — Back in February, during a break from a winter reading retreat at a beach on the Texas coast, I traveled inland to tour an old plantation. I knew that I would encounter uncomfortable ...

Texas’s prison system from the end of the Civil War to the 1980s used perhaps one of the clearest continuances of slavery, the prison plantation system. Prisoners were used for agricultural work and ...

WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS — The highlight of my overnight Texas history trip to Washington-on-the Brazos and nearby Brenham was a “living history farm,” the Barrington Plantation at Washington, which ...

In Tracey Rose Peyton’s engaging, arresting debut, six enslaved women essential to keeping a struggling Texas plantation from imminent collapse are engaged in a constant daily battle over bodily ...

BRAZORIA - Restive and ambitious, Levi Jordan seemingly seldom lost sight of his driving goal: success. Already in his mid-50s when he arrived here in 1848 with his family and slaves, Jordan carved ...