"Ask a Slave: The Web Series"

[browngirl]

Rather than write an essay you can probably already imagine if you know me, I'm just going to put this here and let Lizzie Mae speak for herself.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHPZR1lUMS47BA-N2Ihrtlg

Remember, it's on YouTube, so Don't Read The CommentS!

Comments

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

I saw that and found it very interesting. I hope she continues with the series beyond these first 2 segments. Can't wait til Sunday!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

"Why don't you move to Boston and go to school?" has to be the all time winner for a demonstration of educated ignorance.

[spacehawk.livejournal.com]

This is awesome. Thank you.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I finally got to see these. I am, as usual, ashamed for my race.*

One of the things that moved me out of academe was a class of White American economic history students. We were discussing the cost of the war: lost lives, destroyed railroads and houses, foregone production of things people actually gain life or enjoyment from. As a body, these students were totally certain that, when the enslaved were freed, this destroyed property rather than reassigning ownership of human beings to themselves. They couldn't get it at all.

I would have hated to hear them at Mount Vernon.

* This is both true and a joke.