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CNN) — Months after a Texas school district broke ground on a new technical center, archaeologists there made a surprising discovery: the long-buried remains of 95 people.
The first remains were discovered in February in Sugar Land, a suburb southwest of Houston. And now officials have learned who these people probably were — freed black people forced to work in convict labor camps.
For over a century, these graves were underground and untouched. But the finding that they likely held the remains of slaves, which researchers announced Monday, highlights an era that’s largely forgotten in history — a time when slavery was illegal, but many blacks were essentially still enslaved.
The Sugar Land property is owned by the Fort Bend Independent School District, which is building its new technical school on the land.
“It’s a remarkable opportunity for our community and our school district to learn much more about the history of our local region,” Superintendent Charles Dupre said in a statement.
The site’s archaeological project manager agrees.
“It’s a rare opportunity,” Reign Clark of Goshawk Environmental Consulting told CNN. “We’ll be telling the story of what it was like to live here, work here, and, in some cases, die here.”
It started with a hunch.
Reginald Moore took an interest in historical cemeteries after working as a Texas state prison guard in the 1980s. He no longer works at the prison, but he’s still a community activist.
One of his main focuses: getting people to recognize the abuses of the Sugar Land convict-leasing system, in which prison inmates were forced into labor.
“I felt like I had the duty to be an advocate for them and to speak from the grave for these people,” Moore told CNN.
Moore is the caretaker of another cemetery in Fort Bend County: the Imperial Farm Cemetery, which is nestled behind a shopping center off the highway. Near the cemetery is the home of the school district’s new James Reese Career and Technical Center.
So when construction on the Sugar Land school’s center started last fall, Moore told officials that other cemeteries might be nearby.
“He has documented and provided a lot of information about the history of that cemetery. He has a lot of ideas where the burials could’ve been,” said Chris Florance of the Texas Historical Commission, which has played an advisory role in the project.
What they found
The bodies were each buried in individual wooden caskets. Of those analyzed so far, all but one are men. Researchers say they could have been as young as 14 and as old as 70.
They were probably buried between 1878 and 1910, Clark said.
Despite the passage of time, researchers can tell that the workers were malnourished or sick and faced huge physical stress when they were alive.
Clark said there’s lots of evidence that they were doing very heavy labor that, for some, began at a young age.
“We can tell from the state of the bone and muscle attachment features that these were heavily built individuals. Some bones were misshapen by the sheer musculature and labor,” Clark told CNN.
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SCRANTON, PA (WBRE/CNN/RNN) – The search continues for a Pennsylvania man accused of threatening President Trump and a county prosecutor.
Federal, state and local police spent Tuesday morning combing the woods behind the Scranton School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children in Lackawanna County, PA, looking for 27-year-old Shawn Christy.
Authorities have been searching for Christy since the middle of June, after he allegedly made online threats against President Trump and John Morganelli, the district attorney of Northampton County, PA.
"Keep it up Morganelli, I promise I’ll put a bullet in your head as soon as I put one in the head of President Donald J. Trump," Christy reportedly posted to Facebook.
Christy was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges related to the online threats, which were posted to his Facebook page between June 3 and June 12.
Christy has a long history of allegedly threatening or harassing public officials. In 2010, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin served Christy with a protection-from-abuse order for bombarding her with discomfiting emails.
The following year, Christy and his father Craig Christy were arrested on charges of making harassing phone calls to Palin's lawyers.
Shawn Christy was sentenced to probation and anger management classes for threatening to shoot a tax collection clerk in Bangor, PA. He was arrested on an aggravated assault charge after he allegedly swung a large stick at Stephan Holly, the mayor of McAdoo, PA.
Christy also has arrest warrants for charges of burglary, probation violation and failure to appear in court.
He's reportedly threatened to harm officers who try to arrest him. U.S. Marshals said they consider Christy armed and dangerous.
He's an individual, that when he's a fugitive, he's known to travel," said Robert Clark with the U.S. Marshals' Fugitive Task Force. "The last time the Marshals Service arrested him was in Texas in February, so he's not a stranger to travel."
Earlier this month, in an effort to evade agents, Christy allegedly stole a truck from his former employer at Hazleton Oil, which was later found near the Canadian border.
U.S. Marshals believe Christy stole another vehicle in that area and made his way back down to northeastern Pennsylvania.
On Friday, that second stolen vehicle overheated on an interstate. Authorities believe Christy then broke into the Scranton School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children.
Once inside the school, federal agents said Christy stole bread and milk – and damaged a vending machine – before going out into the woods.
His actions were caught on surveillance cameras.
"I think [the video] helped [investigators]. We got that to them as quickly as we could – full cooperation," said Lou Vitale, operations manager for the school.
After searching the woods near the school Tuesday, authorities didn't find Christy, but they did find some food he allegedly took.
"It seems to us that he's becoming more desperate by the day. He allegedly now has two vehicle thefts, a burglary into this school, and it's imperative for the Marshals Service to find him," Clark said.
Craig Christy, the fugitive's father, said he doesn't think his son would hurt anyone, and that he hopes he’ll peacefully turn himself in.
Copyright 2018 WBRE via CNN. Raycom News Network contributed to this report. All rights reserved.
@2ncourage once you begin discussing the whole truth you'll find who wants it, who doesn't and who needs it. All we can do it follow where truth leads us.
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@2ncourage it is there/here if you seek it, but will test you to your core. Be ready to replace false beliefs, accepted truths you've received from others and not from your own findings, because knowledge of the truth is what will "save" us, not beliefs.
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