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Enslaver, owner who cares WTF is the difference. Owning people is just a sign of sucess and prestige. Nothing wrong with it! I have been owned and have owned. Just a matter of capitalism.

Modern slavery😂

Praise God I was born in 1968. Nevertheless, some traits of this enslavery were still present when I was a child

AUGGGH ALL THOSE LAYERS!!!!!!😵‍💫

Totally stunned this stranger thought it was a compliment to compare you to Aunt Jemima.

sounds alot like corporate america to me 🤷🏾‍♀️

you look gorgeous!

There is no way we can know about how it was in anyones home Slave waking up with when the master did very hard to believe

This actually makes WP look infantilized and incompetent. Funny. It seems the only thing they are good at doing is using others, harming others, lying to others, stealing from others. So on and so forth. Happy af i wasnt alive then.

I’m late to this video, but huge kudos to these actors/reenactors for their detailed, evocative performance work in what must be a grueling headspace to be in sometimes, especially if you’re Black. This is an amazing performance on an acting level, not to mention the context of working as an educator to the public, which is itself a whole other workload of emotional and intellectual labor. Thank y’all for taking the time and effort to put this together and share a truer, realer history. ❤

i want some of that pepper seasoning. Delish!

Enslaver. Absolutely. No one should have ever been "owned".

Omg the corsalette !! What brand is that?!?! I'm currently working with a collection of deadstock from a historical corset building and they manufactured for Sears, penny's etc and that looks just like it m all that I have are smaller sizes. I'm in tears over these foundation garments

As a fat person that loves vintage style and struggles to find clothing . I love seeing this . I truly hope one day I will find some authetic 40s vintage 8n my size

I really like the emphasis on Elizabeth never getting her hands "physically" dirty. We know what you're saying, and the way you say it with so few words is masterful.

If I may: the music is louder than your voice, that makes it harder to listen. Thank you for your work.

I so deeply appreciate thses videos, thank you for making these and bringing to life the lives and daily experiences of enslaved people in America. I'm from Virginia, and while I've absorbed a lot of this information through suggestion, seeing it all laid out like this is so striking and important. I genuinely think this series is set to change the world, where these stories are, in my experience, solely told from a white perspective or softened to spare feelings of white guilt. Thank you for putting this into the world, hard as it must be to stomach the content, your perspective is invaluable.

The terrible of rapes...these women were molested and abused by the white men...😢

I'd rather sell gas and ass.

Can you do a video of the black salve trade in Africa? Informational stuff! Racism is terrible whenever, wherever!

It’s insane to me that enslaved maids were made to engage in conversations like they were friends with the enslavers. “You talk to me like a regular person while I don’t treat you like one” is just such deep physiological brainwashing. Keeping a fresh mind in that environment was absolute hell.

I have to be honest. I would have died from heat in the summers with that many clothes on. Just saying.

Great video, but the background music is too loud.

what is with the unhinged racist comments

I particularly like the "and while [the ladys] job was challenging, she likely never got her hands dirty" I feel like its a simple nod of acknowledgement that the lady, whilst an enslaver, is still a human within a oppressed class as well, expected to do a job to serve those above her. A mere child arranged to bed a man twice her age. However this does *not* change the dynamic. The lady is *still* an enslaver. Still an oppresser. No matter the pleasantries shared. A representation of intersectionality within the time period

Why do you use the word enslaved

This is hard to watch, as it should be. The human race is quite cruel to one another. Thanks for sharing this! Is really puts things into perspective

Hi I have an English question. Doesn’t “an enslaved lady’s maid” mean that the enslaved woman has a maid? Wouldn’t it be “a lady’s enslaved maid”?

I don’t care if Aunt Jemima was real or not, no ONE has the right to go to a black person and say they look like “Aunt Jemima”. It’s a racist statement. Some of these people need to shut their big gaping mouths with their prejudiced statements. The fact that they said “some may consider this offensive”, shows that they were keenly aware that the words that were about to come out of their big gaping mouth were not okay.

Also the whole thing is bonkers. The level of delusion of the enslavers/ white folks is like on a different planet. So freaking traumatic. Amazing and wrong, the psychological mind games alone are even now so far reaching into the future.

This was fascinating but so emotional thank you for your offering of this insight and all the people that worked to create this video and make it happen.

My life I’m white corporate America.

Don't forget about the "white" skin that was enslaved also.

I love the story of Dido. And she was so beautiful.

This happens you're already traumatized. We don't tell because we don't want to deal with the trauma of being called a liar.

wow this is some impressive historical reenactment, I've never seen anyone portray the life of an enslaved person as you have done. The information is so easy to digest as you act out the life and give us the limited details that we know of from that time. It's a very empathetic portrayal, I think this is the kind of stuff they should show kids in middle school because it's so accessible and invites the observer to see the world through the eyes of miss Fick. Thank you for your valuable research and hard work on this project!

I've been putting off listening to this. It's so painful. As a victim myself, it's even harder. I can't imagine having laws that allow it.

I love to watch videos to learn but the music is too loud and distracting to fully focus on what you are saying

The dressing was an entire ordeal, geez. I can't imagine how hot it was working with all those clothes on 😢

I had a Plantation wedding… that is, a wedding in the city of Plantation, Florida 😅

I don’t think you’ve said “enslaved enough, I need to hear it another 500 times otherwise I forget to get angry 🥴

Yet Caucasian men try to act aloof like this does not happen or they are unaware of these situations. Caucasian women and men act odd in the midst of these type of situations like they don’t know that in their history/culture this behavior is common. Caucasian women tend to be innately controlling and white men tend to be innately more aggressive than other cultures of men.

I avoided this video for years because it agitates my ancestors' spirit. 😂😂😂

Sh!t was never this sweet, sorry boo.

whats your job? I pretend to be a slave from the 1800s

Smh ima sit this one out ❗️im disgusted period if im getting married somewhere I would like to know the background sorry inexcusable right you didn’t think about it that way bc you DONT have to the more she talk the more disgusted I get

I'm about 2 years late (I'm binging your content as we speak), but I absolutely loved the updated chatelaine at the end. As someone who is also into History, and Anthropology this made me audibly giggle in excitement. LOVE your content.

I guess the thinking was different but how can you own another human being that you know and spend half your day with and I assume genuinely like and not feel guilty about it? Beyond me. And the number of layers your woman is wearing there is also beyond me.

I always say plantation owner. I do not believe we can own anything that is not an animate object.