The Darrington Plantation

I'll be teaching a class at the Darrington Unit of the TDCJ in the spring. Like other penitentiaries, it is built on the site of an old plantation. This made the transition from enslaved labor to prison labor easier than it might nave otherwise been,

For more on the plantation, click here: 

- Darrington Plantation. 
- Names of two prison units in county still a mystery.
- Brazoria County Historical Museum.
- Memorial Unit.
- Texas Republican asks state to rename several of the state's prisons honoring slave owners.