(urth) Oannes
Jeff Wilson
jwilson at clueland.com
Wed Mar 21 10:48:36 PDT 2012
On 3/21/2012 12:14 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Thomas Bitterman wrote:
>> Catholicism is not anti-slavery, and in some cases can be safely said to be
>> pro-slavery. See, for example, The Catholic Encyclopedia
>
> The slavery to which Catholicism was not opposed was the Roman style
> of slavery, which was more like a form of indentured servitude. Roman
> slaves could own property and buy their own freedom, quite different
> from chattel slavery.
Weren't they still subject to arbitrary use and abuse, and sale to other
owners without consent?
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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >
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