American cities from Atlanta to New York City still use buildings, roads, ports and rail lines built by enslaved people.
The fact that centuries-old relics of slavery still support the economy of the United States suggests that reparations for slavery would need to go beyond government payments to the ancestors of enslaved people to account for profit-generating, slave-built infrastructure.
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