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Before the discovery of the Americas the Catholic Church justified slavery on Theocratic basis, after the colonization of the new world however they started to despise it and even armed Native americans to fight slavery in Spanish colonies, what caused this radical shift in policy towards slavery?

by /u/RutilantBoss in /r/AskHistorians

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