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The 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

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

Joshua F.J. Inwood, Penn State and Anna Livia Brand, University of California, Berkeley

Geographers are documenting slave-built infrastructure, from railroads to ports, in use today. Such work could influence the reparations debate by showing how slavery still props up the US economy.

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