A Day in the Life of an Enslaved Lady's Maid | These Roots Episode 1
These Roots, is a series that explores the day to day lives of Black people across America in the 18th and 19th centuries. The first episode follows Fick, an enslavedLady’s Maid or Stratford Hall Plantation in Virginia!
Next episode will be posted to my Patreon in June.
This is a unique project! The entire production team is Black from the…
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You’ve made a claim that slaves were desired to know how to read, that is very incorrect. Slaves were not taught how to read. It was against the law to teach a slave how to read.
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!!!!!!😵💫
sounds alot like corporate america to me 🤷🏾♀️
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. ❤
Enslaver. Absolutely. No one should have ever been "owned".
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.
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”?
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.
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 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 don’t think you’ve said “enslaved enough, I need to hear it another 500 times otherwise I forget to get angry 🥴
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
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.
What’s with all that clothing omg I’m exhausted just looking at those layers
Crazy that slavery still lives on today in mostly middle eastern and African regions and North Korea. Crazy that The UAE is so loved by influencers some of whom did the whole BLM thing only to promote a country that is rife with slavery. 😅 we live a clown world though so it is what it is.
Thank you for this channel. In a world of misinformation, this is exactly what the world needs.
Liked the video but hated the goddamn background music.
Heart breaking. These people had incredible stamina and grace just to live like this.
They wore so many layers back then like how were they not drenched in sweat during hot summers 😩
I’m surprised that a white lady would have a black ladies maid
Explains why we care about our image so much
Republicans idea of "nObOdY wAntS tO wOrK aNymoRe!" 🙄
Now this is history that struck some nerves. However, History is to be looked back on, to learn from. This was an eye opener for me.
That is A LOT of clothing at one time to wear 😩
this make s me so mad…