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Massachusetts considers slavery-era disclosure law | The Living Consequences
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/186/ht03pdf/ht03148.pdf
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/186/ht03pdf/ht03148.pdf
Massachusetts state representative Byron Rushing has re-introduced his slavery-era disclosure law, An Act Relative to the History of Slavery in the Commonwealth.
Rushings bill would require companies doing business with the state to research and report their connections to slavery (and those of any predecessor companies) prior to 1889. The secretary of state, in turn, would use this information to publish a history of slavery and the slave trade in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts would become the fourth state, after Illinois, Iowa, and California, to pass a slavery-era disclosure law since 2000. Nine major cities have also passed ordinances requiring companies seeking to do business with the cities to reveal any ties to, and profits from, slavery. These cities include Berkeley, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Oakland, Philadelphia, San Francisco.