Bell was raised by her aristocratic uncle Lord Katherine Mansfieldand his wife. Bell's birth gave her certain privileges, but her skin color prevented her from fully participating in social rights. But she was firm and courageous, and helped her uncle, who was the chief justice, put an end to slavery in Britain. In addition to fully demonstrating the courage of this woman, it also presents a love story between her and the son of a priest, an idealistic youth
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Belle movie plot
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Extended Reading
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John Davinier: Religion cannot be the only guardian of our morality. Of course not. There is self-responsibility. And failing that, does the law not have a duty? Does the bench and parliament not have a duty to uphold and create the laws that progress our morality, not... not retard it, if not to protect us from others, then to protect us from ourselves? Laws that allow us to diminish the humanity of anybody are not laws. They are frameworks for crime. And, quite frankly, I really do not care if you, as an individual, are without character or conscience, but a land whose laws sanction, not control, the barbarous among its citizens, that is a country whose hope is lost.
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Lord Mansfield: Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall.