A part of Sugar Land history is still waiting for its own preservation efforts to take shape: the 95 graves for African-American prison laborers subjected to the state’s convict-leasing system after the Civil War and forced to labor on the area’s sugar cane plantations.
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Sugar Land officials held a groundbreaking ceremony in early November for a restoration project at the site of what was once the economic headquarters for the town: the former Imperial Sugar factory char house…