What role did the Catholic church have on slavery in latin america?

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What role did the Catholic church have on slavery in latin america?

Answer 1

You sound like you have a homework assignement that you want us to do for you. Sorry buddy. Go read your text book and learn something!

Answer 2

Here are some sites to help you in your research on slavery:

http://www.realhistories.org.uk/index.ph...

http://users.binary.net/polycarp/slave.h...

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-UR...

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_v...

http://www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron...

Answer 3

The Bible does not condemn slavery. Colossians 3:22 even states, "Slaves, obey your human masters in everything."

This was much debated before and during the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), four hundred years after the Catholic Church became one of the first groups to condemn slavery.

The condemnation of slavery is one of those nonbiblical doctrines that Catholics have developed through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit over the centuries.

+ In 1462, Pius II declared slavery to be "a great crime" (magnum scelus). Note that this was 30 years before Columbus "discovered" America.

+ In 1537, Paul III forbade the enslavement of the Indians

+ Urban VIII forbade it in 1639

+ Benedict XIV forbade it in 1741

+ Pius VII demanded of the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, the suppression of the slave trade

+ Gregory XVI condemned it in 1839

+ In the Bull of Canonization of the Jesuit Peter Claver, one of the most illustrious adversaries of slavery, Pius IX branded the "supreme villainy" (summum nefas) of the slave traders.

+ Leo XIII, in 1888, addressed a letter to the Brazilian bishops, exhorting them to banish from their country the remnants of slavery -- a letter to which the bishops responded with their most energetic efforts, and some generous slave-owners by freeing their slaves in a body, as in the first ages of the Church.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14036a.h...

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

Ya, bro. You have at least three questions on here related to slavery. You should definitely do your own homework. We will never amount to anything or learn anything unless you do your own homework. Good luck. Just do some research on the internet.