Glad to hear that you are working on such a site.  We need more archaeological research on this subject.  tI presume that you are familiar with historical works such as Douglas Blackmon's "Slavery by Another Name" and Robert Perkinson's "Texas Tough" in addition to Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow?"  

Several years back I worked with the Texas Slave Descendants Society to preserve what remained of Central State Farm (since converted to mixed use development, including a local branch of the Houston Museum of Science) in Fort Bend County, one of the centers of enslavement in Texas, as well as the convict leasing system that followed.  One of the studies that you may find useful is the Section 106 inventory conducted by the Austin based CRM firm Prewitt and Associates entitled "Hell-Hole on the Brazos:  A Historic Resources Study of Central State Farm, Fort Bend County, Texas" by Amy E. Dase.

Presumably you are already doing this, but if you wish to go beyond literary review of material such as this and proceed onward to discussion with actual local black people, that can be arranged.

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On Oct 15, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Wettstaed, James -FS wrote:

> I am working with a site that was owned by one of Georgia's prison companies from roughly 1875 to 1885.  It was a cotton plantation and factory.  I am curious if anyone knows of any archaeological work that made have been carried out at such sites that I could use for comparative purposes, especially in the South in the late nineteenth century.
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