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Venice... you mean the same Venice that regularly was interdicted by the Church, was regularly in schism from the Church, completely rejected the authority of the Pope except when it was convenient to get help against their enemies, considered themselves separate from Christendom except, of...

OK, let me get started then. Church leaders as early as the 5th century preached against slavery, on the grounds that it was an immoral act. By the 7th century the Church was actively teaching that keeping slaves was profoundly immoral, and that freeing them was an 'infinitely commendable act'...

You are not listening to me. Multiple Church Father's, including some of the greatest Doctor's of the Church, stated that under no circumstances was slavery acceptable for Christians. That post-Reformation it was possible for greedy Imperialists on both sides of the divide to, in the case of...

This seems to be the right thread for this. Bluntly, slavery post 15th century and biblical slavery are two completely different animals. Biblical references to slavery were in the Hebrew context, in which 'slave' or 'servant' was effectively identical to 'employee', because if you didn't own...