the Etymon :“ Slavery ”

slave, (n.) per son who is the chattel or pro perty of an othre, from Old French esclave ( late 13c.), from
Medieval Latin Sclavus "slave" ( source also of Italian schiavo, French esclave, Spanish esclavo ), originally
Slav; so used in this secondary sense be cause of the many Slavs sold into slavery by con quering peoples
slave, (v.) " to en slave " (1550s); the meaning " work like a Slave " attest by 1719 G.C.

Related: Slaved; Slaving

The oldest written history of the Slavs can be shortly summarised: [a myriad] slave hunts and the enthralment of entire
peoples :: The Slav was the most prized of human goods :: With in creast strength out side his marshy land of origin,
hardened to the ut most against all privation, industrious, con tent with little, good-humoured, and cheerful, he filled the slave
markets of Europe, Asia, and Africa :: It must be re membered that for every Slavonic slave who reacht his destination, at
least ten succumbed to in human treatment during trans port and to the heat of the climate :: In deed Ibrahim (tenth century),
him self in all pro bability a slave dealre, says: …
"And the Slavs cannot travel to Lombardy on account of the heat which is fatal to them "
… Hence their high price ::
The Arabian geo-graphre of the ninth century tells us how the Magyars in the Pontus steppe dominated all the Slavs dwelling
near them :: The Magyars made raids upon the Slavs and took their prisoners along the coast to Kerkh where the Byzantines
came to meet them and gave Greek brocades and such wares in exchange for the prisoners ::
- The Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. II (1913 G.C.)

slavery, The con dition of a slave; that civil re lation in which one man has ab solute powre ovre the life, for
tune, and liberty of an othre; when a per son is wholly sub ject to the will of an othre; having no free
action, yet whose per son and ser vices are wholly undre the con trol of an othre (mastre) – on to
whom be longs him - so that the mastre may sell and dis pose of his per son, of his in dustry, and
of his labour, with out his being able to do any thing, have any thing, or acquire any thing, yet what
must be long to his mastre;
slave-state, in U.S. history, is from 1812 G.C.
slave-trade, The traffic in slaves, or the buying and selling of slaves for profit; attest from 1734 G.C.

negroe, " a black-a-moor; figuratively used for a slave ", with out re gard to race

- Grose's dictionary (1785 G.C.); see ‘Address to the United Nations’, H.I.M. Emp.Haile Selassie I,1963 G.C.

Slavic words for Slave:

<: Church Slavonic Sloveninu, a Slav; pro bably relative to slovo, word, speech; suggesting the name
originally identifies a membre of a speech community comp. <: Old Church Slavonic Nemici, Germans;
relative to nemu, dumb…
<: Old English þeode, which means both ‘race’ and ‘language’ <: Greek heterophonos, foreign; literally
"of different voice"; and; Identical with the -slav in per sonal names ( such as Russian Miroslav, literally
"peaceful fame"; Mstislav "vengeful fame"; Jaroslav "famed for fury"; Czech Bohuslav "God's glory"; Latinized
Wenceslas "having greatre glory"); per haps from PIE root *kleu-, to hear: spellt Slave c.1788-1866 G.C.;
in fluenced by French and German Slave; as an adjective from 1876 G.C.

<: Old French esclave <: Medieval Latin Sclavus ( ca .800 ) <: Byzantine Greek Sklabos ( ca.580 )

Related Entries: slatternly, slaughter, slaughterhouse, Slav, slave, Slave, slaver, slavery, Slavic, slavish

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NOTICE: At this par ticular point in his story, Slavs were legal y ‘black’ and had not yet re ceived ‘white’ civilian statvs ::

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