Slavery

Beginning my project about this theme I should go into the etymology of this word. What language does it come from? It comes from the German language. Going back several hundred years german people always loved coming to Slavic lands such as Russia, Poland and others in order to take prisoners to German and make them into slaves. So we can see the connection between two English words “Slavic” and “slavish”. The German’s idea was that Slavic people were slaves. That’s why this word got into the german language and then got into English.