# English Dominican Summa prints natural-law articles that accommodate servitude

Date: 1920

## The fact

The English Summa’s justice and natural-law questions, including received ius gentium servitude, print a hierarchy of unfree status as legally thinkable. It is not a slave code for 1270 Naples, and it is not abolition.

## Context

Scholastic law can call slavery a consequence of sin and still treat it as a title. Later colonial lawyers quoted such headings. Medium confidence on unique plantation coefficients.

[Thomas Aquinas](/people/thomas-aquinas) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, Holy See, or archive page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Summa Theologiae I-II q.94 — Natural law (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2094.htm; New Advent).

## Significance

Printed accommodation of servitude is an inequality path, not a 1270 census of unfree persons.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [income-inequality](/drivers/income-inequality). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is income-inequality. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Thomas Aquinas: https://factrail.ai/people/thomas-aquinas

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2094.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-slavery-servitude