Calls to disclose companies linked with slavery

Lawmakers in the US Virgin Islands are being urged to implement measures that will require corporations doing business in the territory to research their history and disclose any links to the transatlantic slave trade.



The group behind that proposal is the St Croix-based African-Caribbean Reparations and Resettlement Alliance.



The head of the group, Shelley Moorhead, said the legislation will not seek reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans.



She said it will instead serve as recognition, for ancestors who have gone to their graves without any kind of respect for their contributions.