Nottoway Plantation just burned down, so we're looking into its history and other plantations where the most brutal chattel slavery occurred.

Like every Texas prison established before the 1980s, Memorial Unit is built on a former slave plantation. A short drive away, you can see the rubble of slaver Abner Jackson’s home and sugar mill.

Texas statehood was made official on Dec. 28. On Feb. 19, 1846, statehood was made official. In a solemn ceremony, Jones ...