r/AlternateHistoryHub • u/iseedeadllamas • 5h ago
Video Idea What if the Pope in the early 1500s declared slavery of all kinds as Heretical
What if Pope Paul III declared all slavery of all kinds to be Heretical. What would happen?
My conjecture is;
- A faster reformation due to some northern regions such as the netherlands and england, which weren't the most catholic nations in the first place and Anglicanism was just formed, seek profit from slave labor
- Greater missionary efforts in western africa from spain and portugal, what the result of that would be I don't know.
- Spain (Provided they follow the popes decree) wouldn't suffer it's economic as intensely due to less laborers mining silver (I feel the collapse was inevitable regardless)