History WebVideo / AskASlave

* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe. Many of the askers have not even a basic grasp of history.

* AngryBlackMan: 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.

** Discussed. In the first episode Lizzie states some female slaves end up baring the illegitimate children of their masters, and in the episode "Abolitioning" she states that Thomas Jefferson being an example of this as a rebuttal after Tobias Leer lists Jefferson as an example of a good master. In the episode "Kids!", after a child asks if she's George Washington's wife, Lizzie tells the child not to let Martha Washington hear that - implying that even being perceived as this trope was dangerous for enslaved women because it invited retaliation from the master's wife.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The basis of much of the series' humor is the tourists' inability to understand the magnitude of slavery.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Not for Lizzie, but her friend Emma the Runaway. When fist shown, Emma is hiding in the woods and being chased by bloodhounds. In the last episode, Emma's is living in Portsmouth and is married to a rich freeman.

* {{GIFT}}: The comments section of each and every video seems to attract this, to one degree or another. Parodied in one of the second-season videos, where people commenting from home attack Lizzie Mae from every conceivable angle, but then just start quarrelling with each other.

* UndergroundRailroad: One viewer (from Vermont) asks Mae why she doesn't just take the Underground Railroad to escape. As this takes place 30 years before the "Underground Railroad" formed and before the invention of steam trains, Lizzie Mae assumes that people in Vermont build their roads underground for some unfathomable reason.

** Discussed. Lizzie states some female slaves end up baring their masters illegitimate children, with Thomas Jefferson being an example of this.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: George Washington, who most Americans see as a heroic founding father and revolutionary, is seen as arrogant and demanding by his slaves Lizzie Mae and Sam Johnson. Meanwhile the Seneca leader Red Jacket states his people call George Washington "[TheDreaded town-destroyer" for attacking his people's settlements and burned their crops during the Revolutionary War then forced them to give up their land after it ended.

* WhamLine: Lizzie delivers one to a viewer who tries arguing that slavery was a good deal due to his assumption that the slaves received room and board for their work.

** This line shows that they didn't get room and board, but rather had to secure that for themselves in addition to providing free labor to their masters.

* HilariousInHindsight: Lizzie's response when someone asks what George Washington thinks of Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves.
--> '''Lizzie''': "I don't know an Abraham Lincoln, but he'd better not try to free another man's slave unless he's trying to get shot in the head." [[note]]That's exactly how Lincoln died.[[/note]]

* HistoricalInJoke: Lizzie Mae comments that the worst day of her life was "The day Thomas Jefferson came to visit", which is what Martha Washington said was the ''second''worst day of her life. (The worst being the day her husband die.)

* HistoricalInJoke: Lizzie Mae comments that the worst day of her life was "The day Thomas Jefferson came to visit", which is what Martha Washington said was the ''second'' day of her life. (The worst being the day her husband die.)

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tobias Lear in episode 2 of season 1 and Red Jacket/Sagoyewatha from episode 3 of season 1 are actual historical figures.

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* NobleBigot: An abolitionist is a guest on the show in the second episode. Unfortunately, he still thinks of black people as "inferior", and seems to oppose slavery more on the grounds of industrial philosophy. He also doesn't want to make African-Americans be equal citizens, but instead have them all shipped back to Africa, which many of them have no memories or experience of. [[DeliberateValuesDissonance That's an accurate portrayal of your typical abolitionist of the time]].

* WartsAndAll: The series makes it clear that many American founders like George Washington or Jefferson were very racist despite their heroic acts. George Washington is at best neutral toward his slaves, and he is unfavorably remembered by a Native American guest, who says that his people call Washington "Village Burner".

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* {{GIFT}}: The comments section of each and every video seems to attract this, to one degree or another. Parodied in one of the second-season videos.