"So the Africans were responsible for the enslavement of other Africans? Or, was it the Pope who authorized the enslavement of West Africans. Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas on 18 June, 1452. It authorized Alfonso V of Portugal to reduce any ""Saracens (Muslims/Moors) and pagans (An advanced person without a religion) and any other unbelievers"" to perpetual slavery. This facilitated the Portuguese slave trade from West Africa."
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