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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Remaking Achilles: Slicing into Angola's History

Remaking Achilles: Slicing into Angola's History

Tyx, Carol

Paperback

Writing InstructionGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0999491520
ISBN13: 9780999491522
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 1 2020
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A compassionate and imaginative retelling of a harrowing period in American penal history. Andy Douglas, Author of Redemption Songs: A Year in the Life of a Community Choir

Remaking Achilles: Slicing into Angola's History explores, through poetry in the voices of those who took part, the String Heel Incident of the 1950s, when 31 inmates crippled themselves by slicing through their Achilles tendons in protest of the horrifying conditions at Angola Prison. The history of The Louisiana State Penitentiary, called Angola, is filled with atrocities, abuses, horror stories. This particular incident was coordinated by the prisoners themselves to bring attention to their treatment, and story of the Heel String Incident spread throughout the U.S., finally calling attention to the horrible conditions and the needs for reform.

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