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Azie Mira Dungey, comedian and actress, and Jordan Black, director, created this web series in 2013. During 2012, notable for Barack Obama's re-election campaign, Dungey worked as a historical impersonator at the popular tourist site George Washington's Mount Vernon. She wrote this web series based on her experiences portraying a slave and interacting with Mount Vernon visitors. The questions asked in the videos were ones Azie actually fielded from visitors while she worked.
The series uses humor and mobilizes the historical world of a revolutionary era female house slave to make points about political history and, occasionally, contemporary labor politics and race. Dungey also maintains the Ask a Slave facebook page, which actively posts and comments on contemporary political issues related to race, like the #changethename campaign about the Washington Redskins' football team name.
Contributed by Samantha Close on 5/10/14
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