, Pope Paul III condemned slavery as anti-Christian. Despite the fact that a number of well renowned figures of the time displayed outbursts of conscience, the issue was not so much the colour of the slaves but the idea of slavery as a whole. However, public attitudes began to change during the eighteenth Century. Many factors began to coincide to increase the opposition to slavery in the Caribbean and particularly in the Plantation societies of the British West Indies.
             The implications of race and slavery began to trouble Europeans in new ways. At the beginning of the importation of slaves into the Plantations, the ruling whites conscience was clear in regards to the question of colour in their plantations. As far as they were concerned they were helping these so-called savages and cannibals to become civilised and disciplined. "All slave owners, then, worked consistently to make their slaves submissive and deferential." They also believed that by
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