ON POPE LEO'S APOLOGY FOR THE PAPACY'S ENCOURAGING SLAVERY

 I am not a Christian, but am currently writing a piece on my blog about the decline of slavery in the Roman

Empire after Constantine. The new, foreign imported religion, beginning with Constantine, will transform

the empire so that it should not even be called the Late Roman Empire, but instead, the Christian Empire.

By the year 400 many of the cultural aspects that had made it the Roman Empire were banned or restricted,

or in decline. The decline of slavery was one important change DUE to the new religion. It was a Christian

Revolution, comparable to the French, Russia, or American, but so far, considerably longer lasting.

Newser just posted an article about the Pope' apology concerning slaveryduring the age of Exploration

and Colonization. But at other times the Christians may have led in trying to curb or end slavery.

Hugh Murray