Thomas J. Murphy, Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838
- Book review by Maura Jane Farrelly.
- http://www.as.wvu.edu/coll03/relst/jsr/2002/Reviews/Farrelly.htm

On the Abolition of Slavery
- Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on May 5, 1888.
- http://www.rc.net/rcchurch/popes/leo13/l13slav.txt

Prohibition on Selling Christians to Pagans for Sacrificial Rites
- From Pope Gregory III in 731.
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/731Greg3.html

On Manumission and Redemption
- Pope Gregory I (c. 600) not only set free serfs subject to him but he awarded them the goods they held, and he put forward the strongest reason for his act. From the Medieval Sourcebook.
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/600Gregmanu.html

Catholics and the Negro.
- 1917 article from the Journal of Negro History by Joseph Butsch, arguing that the Catholic church was crucial in ammeliorating the condition of slaves in the Americas.
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/butsch/menu.html

Let My People Go: the Catholic Church and Slavery
- An article looking at the Catholic church's nuanced attitude towards slavery - allowing it in some cases but condemning the harsher version practiced in America and the English colonies.
- http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1201