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The Church Fathers · c. 450–460
Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus
Patrick · 5th century
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What it is
An open excommunication of a British warlord whose men had killed and enslaved newly baptised Irish Christians, demanding their return.
Why it lasted
The earliest surviving Christian protest against slave-raiding, written by a former slave.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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