One film I re-watched, and one new one I saw for the first time are "Belle" and "Chevalier" about two unusual but extraordinary mixed race people who lived in the 18th century: Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay in England, the Chevalier Saint Georges in France...definitely worth checking out if you are interested!
The painting of the real Dido and her cousin Elizabeth that inspired the film
The 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, Belle 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. (via Amazon)
Royal Blood podcast, episode 112
The real Chevalier Saint Georges
Royal Blood podcast, episode 131
Royal Blood podcast, episode 132
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