Deprivation Of Slavery In The Film Angola, Arkansas

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One thing I found interesting in the beginning of the film was the name Angola which originated from the slaves that worked the fields came from Angola in Africa. At the Louisiana State penitentiary, you see history repeating itself back to slavery. With the way the officer put the inmates to work in the fields. Where the inmates would grow their own foods and get a little bit of money from working in the fields. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary Some of the pain of imprisonment demonstrated in the film where deprivation of liberty, and deprivation of autonomy. For example, the when entering the penitentiary most of the inmates are serving life sentencing, and have to come to the reality that over a period of time their family