where can i find information on anti-slaves opinions on slavery and the actions they did to try to stop it?

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+ i thought this topic would be good

Answer 1

William Wilberforce was an anti slavery campaigner.
John Newton and William Cowper's Olney Hymns, Newton used to be on a slave ship (I think he was a captain) and left to go into a life in the church, but their hymns and some of the poetry help give an understanding of the period.
There is a book called Mungo Parks travels to the interior districts of Africa. Which gives an account of what it was like for slaves captured.
Wide Sargasso sea, by Jean Rhys is another good book.
Robert Wedderburn, From issues of The Axe Laid to the Root, 1817. Born to a black mother and a white slave owner.
He also wrote Truth self-supported, 1802, Defense against Blasphemy, 1820, and The Horrors of Slavery, 1824.
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and sentiments on the evil of slavery, 1787.
Mary Prince, The history of Mary Prince, 1831.
Some of the extracts if you cannot find them came in a book called: From Enlightenment to Romanticism, anthology 1, ed by Ian Donnachie and Carmen Lavin. Manchester University press, Manchester and Newyork, 2003.
I hope some of this helps.

Answer 2

The Bible does not condemn slavery. Colossians 3:22 even states, "Slaves, obey your human masters in everything."

This was much debated before and during the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), four hundred years after the Catholic Church became one of the first groups to condemn slavery.

The condemnation of slavery is one of those nonbiblical doctrines that Catholics have developed through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit over the centuries.

+ In 1462, Pius II declared slavery to be "a great crime" (magnum scelus). Note that this was 30 years before Columbus "discovered" America.

+ In 1537, Paul III forbade the enslavement of the Indians

+ Urban VIII forbade it in 1639

+ Benedict XIV forbade it in 1741

+ Pius VII demanded of the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, the suppression of the slave trade

+ Gregory XVI condemned it in 1839

+ In the Bull of Canonization of the Jesuit Peter Claver, one of the most illustrious adversaries of slavery, Pius IX branded the "supreme villainy" (summum nefas) of the slave traders.

+ Leo XIII, in 1888, addressed a letter to the Brazilian bishops, exhorting them to banish from their country the remnants of slavery -- a letter to which the bishops responded with their most energetic efforts, and some generous slave-owners by freeing their slaves in a body, as in the first ages of the Church.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14036a.htm

With love in Christ.