The Punishment of Belle Sauvage

Her Perfect Skin Ran Red! Captain Prince and Susan Webb, a proud beauty of Charleston society, are rivals for Monnelia, the plantation"s "belle sauvage". A gentler girl, Tania, attempts to free a pretty Eurasian slave and tastes vengeance from the master"s whip. Behind the shuttered windows of the plantation house, white maidservants toil under a different sort of slavery, and in one hot summer of repression, they are all drawn together. This controversial classic reveals the British fascination with slavery in the Americas and the implicit racism which under lay it.