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"Angola is Still a Plantation": Fighting Back Against Legacies of Slavery

By Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn. Posted June 12, 2008.


At Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison, which sits on a former slave plantation, prisoners are doing more than surviving. They are organizing.
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Jordan Flaherty is a union organizer and an editor of Left Turn Magazine.

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