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Prohibition on Selling Christians to Pagans for Sacrificial Rites - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/731Greg3.html
From Pope Gregory III in 731. |
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Let My People Go: The Catholic Church and Slavery - http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=1201
An article looking at the Catholic church's nuanced attitude towards slavery - allowing it in some cases but condemning the harsher version practiced in America and the English colonies. |
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On Manumission and Redemption - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/600Gregmanu.html
Pope Gregory I (c. 600) not only set free serfs subject to him but he awarded them the goods they held, and he put forward the strongest reason for his act. From the Medieval Sourcebook. |
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Catholics and the Negro. - http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/butsch/menu.html
1917 article from the Journal of Negro History by Joseph Butsch, arguing that the Catholic church was crucial in ammeliorating the condition of slaves in the Americas. |