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  1. Slavery Haunts America's Plantation Prisons

    truthout.org » Truthout - All Articles - Aug 28, 2008

    On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. They …

    Also tagged: angola, agriculture, incarceration, louisiana, prisons, slavery, african americans, cotton, 13th amendment, the south, plantations