Belle : the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice / Paula Byrne.
Belle : the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice / Paula Byrne.
By
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Byrne, Paula.
Publication Date
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2014
Publication Information
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New York : Harper Perennial,
Physical Description
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xii, 283 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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Racially mixed people.
Women, Black -- Biography.
Slaves -- Biography
Illegitimate children -- Biography
Nobility -- England -- Biography.
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Geographic Term
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England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-283).
Summary
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The sensational true tale that inspired the motion picture Belle (2013) starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Miranda Richardson -- a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay of the Royal Navy and the enslaved biracial African-American woman Maria Belle; Dido was sent to live in the household of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery -- in his capacity of Lord Chief Justice he was ruling on cases affecting the legitimacy of the whole slave trade. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a Black woman and white woman depicted as equals.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780062310774
General Note
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"The true story behind the movie."
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number |
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Bonavista | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 941.073 B99 |
Corner Brook | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 941.073 B99 |
Labrador City | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 941.073 B99 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 941.073 B99 |