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Slave-built infrastructure still creates wealth in US, suggesting reparations should cover past harms and current value of slavery

  • Written by Joshua F.J. Inwood, Associate Professor of Geography Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
Slave-built infrastructure still creates wealth in US, suggesting reparations should cover past harms and current value of slaveryThe Port of Savannah used to export cotton picked by enslaved laborers and brought from Alabama to Georgia on slave-built railways. Cotton is still a top product processed through this port.Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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