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.
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.
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