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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1319228)	9/13/2021 9:26:23 AM
From: Jamie153	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587808

I read over 300 slaves, but this article only says several hundred. Pope Gregory I[ edit] Pope Gregory I in his Pastoral Care (c. 600), which remained a popular text for centuries, wrote "Slaves should be told ...[not] to despise their masters and recognise they are only slaves". In his Commentary on the Book of Job he wrote that "All men are equal by nature but .... a hidden dispensation by providence has arranged a hierarchy of merit and rulership, in that differences between classes of men have arisen as a result of sin and are ordained by divine justice". [74] He directed slaves to be employed by the monasteries as well as forbidding the unrestricted allowance of slaves joining the monastery to escape their servitude. [75] Upon manumitting two slaves held by the Church, he wrote: [76] Since our Redeemer, the Maker of every creature, was pleased mercifully to assume human flesh in order to break the chain of slavery in which we were held captive, and restore us to our pristine liberty, it is right that men, whom nature from the beginning produced free, and whom the law of nations has subjected to the yoke of slavery, should be restored by the benefit of manumission to the liberty in which they were born. —?Pope Gregory the Great However, the papal estates alone continued to possess several hundred slaves despite Gregory's rhetoric on the natural liberty of mankind. [77]