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The Catholic Church and the Aristotelian Idea of Servitude
The church would not accept the idea that a people could be said to be fit for servitude. Even in Aristotle, Aristotle wasn't thinking in terms of racial groups. But you did have people who try to kind of spin the Aristotelian idea on this subject into a defense of slavery.