May 21, 2021
4 min read
Race in America
No One is Born a ‘Slave’
Or a slave owner
The word slave comes from the medieval Latin word sclavus and was originally used to describe people of Slavic ethnicity. ‘Slav’ was a catch-all term for Indo-European migrants who shared a common language root. ‘Slav’ originally meant ‘word’ and indicated many different tribes who could understand each other’s words.
