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http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=slave здесь еще этимология, копирую:
slave (n.) late 13c., "person who is the property of another," from O.Fr. esclave (13c.), from M.L. Sclavus "slave" (cf. It. schiavo, Fr. esclave, Sp. esclavo), originally "Slav" (see Slav), so called because of the many Slavs sold into slavery by conquering peoples.
This sense development arose in the consequence of the wars waged by Otto the Great and his successors against the Slavs, a great number of whom they took captive and sold into slavery. <Klein>
O.E. Wealh "Briton" also began to be used in the sense of "serf, slave" c.850; and Skt. dasa-, which can mean "slave," is apparently connected to dasyu- "pre-Aryan inhabitant of India." More common O.E. words for slave were юeow (related to юeowian "to serve") and юrжl (see thrall). The Slavic words for "slave" (Rus. rab, Serbo-Croatian rob, O.C.S. rabu) are from O.Slav. *orbu, from the PIE base *orbh- (also source of orphan) the ground sense of which seems to be "thing that changes allegiance" (in the case of the slave, from himself to his master). The Slavic word is also the source of robot.
slave (v.) c.1600, "to enslave," from slave (n.). The meaning "work like a slave" is first recorded 1719. Related: Slaved; slaving.
Slave Indian tribe of northwestern Canada, 1789, from slave, translating Cree (Algonquian) awahkan "captive, slave."
Пишут, что со времен Оттона Великого пошло, хотя он жил в 10 веке, а первые датировки указаны 13 веком, как раз величина хронологического сдвига на 300-360 лет, при этом Оттон Великий и его последователи накладываются на ранних ордынцев-"монголов"-великих.
Кстати, нет ли общей этимологии между "раб" и "араб"?
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