{"product_id":"9780062310774","title":"Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne, the sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture \u003cb\u003eBelle\u003c\/b\u003e (May 2014) starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode—a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. 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. Inspired by the painting, \u003cb\u003eBelle\u003c\/b\u003e vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBelle\u003c\/b\u003e includes 20 pages of black-and-white photos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021655228656,"sku":"9780062310774","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062310774_p0.jpg?v=1763629613","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062310774","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}