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Ask a Slave (Web Video)

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Ask a Slave: The Web Series is a YouTube series centered on Lizzie Mae (played by actress Azie Dungey, culling questions from her real-life employment as a historical re-enactor in Virginia), a house slave at Mount Vernon. She answers questions from modern-day tourists (whose names have been changed to protect the guilty). The questions she's asked are easily enough to justify a "Somewhere, a Historian is Crying" tropes page.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })
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Cluster F-Bomb: What Lizzie Mae does when one of the guests says slavery wasn't that bad.
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Angry Black Man: One of the tourists was one of these, trying to be in-character by yelling at her for being taken into slavery. Lizzie Mae just scoffs at him just like with the white ones.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: "Look at [my son], pretending how to read!"
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Ask a Stupid Question...
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Ask a Stupid Question...: Pretty much the whole point of the series.
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Artistic License – History
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Artistic License – History: Averting this trope is the point of the series, and Azie Dungey's work.
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Children Are Innocent
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Children Are Innocent: Played straight in the episode "Kids!", when several children ask her questions. At worse their questions are Innocently Insensitive. Downplayed with her own son, Jimmy. He admits to picking on an indentured servant's son named Buck, but only because Buck taunted him for being a slave.
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Accidental Misnaming
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Accidental Misnaming: Fellow slave Sam keeps getting called "Sambo". He doesn't like that. At all.
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Berserk Button: Do not suggest to Lizzie Mae that slavery wasn't all that bad.
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