After reading about 200 pages into "The Slave" I began to wonder if the massacre that Jacob and his family was part of was fictional or not. I decided to do some research and found out that the Chmielnicki Massacre was an actual massacre. I assumed that Isac Singer had created a fictional tragedy but in actually this was a real thing. I was curious about the history of Poland and whether or not "The Slave" had any truth in it. I also found this guy named Bohdan Khmelnytsky who was apparently one of the leaders involved in starting the massacres. This guys sounds pretty messed up.