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Prisoners at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas, in March of 1966. Ellis is built on land from a former slave plantation. Credit: Photo by Bruce Jackson On a 90-degree June day at Memorial Unit in ...

Although generations have passed since the American Civil War, slavery’s past still taunts Black Americans in the form of Confederate flags and southern plantations. In fact, there remains hundreds of ...