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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.
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.
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.
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.