Geoguessr pro goes Angola on Louisiana 🤦‍♂️ — Transcript

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1. 0:00Jerry Connelly, thanks for the five
2. 0:01gifted muddy dirt. Looks like we're at a
3. 0:02rodeo. Oh, it says Angola prison. We
4. 0:05must be over here in
5. 0:07Angola. What? Why is there a prison
6. 0:10called Angola in the middle of
7. 0:12Louisiana? In 1838, America's largest
8. 0:15slave trader combined four plantations
9. 0:17into the Louisiana State Penitentiary,
10. 0:20otherwise known as the Angola Prison. It
11. 0:22got its name from the African nation
12. 0:23whose people were stolen and forced to
13. 0:26work these very lands. Today, inmates
14. 0:28still pick cotton for just a couple
15. 0:30cents an hour because they are
16. 0:31technically still slaves thanks to a
17. 0:33carveout in the 13th amendment. Even
18. 0:35after the abolition of slavery, Angola
19. 0:38was turned into a convict leasing camp
20. 0:40where white folks could use that
21. 0:41carveout to reinslave newly freed black
22. 0:43people. I had the displeasure of
23. 0:45attending the Angola prison rodeo and
24. 0:47watching these men get gored by 2,000lb
25. 0:49bulls for the shot at winning a couple
26. 0:51hundred bucks in prize money. Nearly all
27. 0:53the inmates I talked with still maintain
28. 0:55that they were wrongfully convicted
29. 0:57decades later after being locked up.
30. 1:00Countless men imprisoned here in Angola
31. 1:02were sent to prison for life without
32. 1:03parole on split jury decisions. In any
33. 1:06other state, you need a unanimous jury
34. 1:08to convict someone. But thanks to a Jim
35. 1:11Crow era law that was around until 2020,
36. 1:14many of these men will never see the
37. 1:16outside world ever again.