Oannes

Jeff Wilson · 21 Mar 2012, 17:48 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:48:36 -0500
Subject: (urth) Oannes
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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
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