» Catholics and the Negro. - 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.
» Let My People Go: the Catholic Church and Slavery - 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.
» On Manumission and Redemption - 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.
» On the Abolition of Slavery - Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on May 5, 1888.
» Prohibition on Selling Christians to Pagans for Sacrificial Rites - From Pope Gregory III in 731.
» Thomas J. Murphy, Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838 - Book review by Maura Jane Farrelly.
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