Base on true story?
I hope so! Was it?
shareYep, it was. Just check it out on Google before people make fun of you for not thinking of that. ;-)
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Yes. There's a brief outline on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_Elizabeth_Belle
Also, an interesting and readable book by historian Paula Byrne. Confusingly, this has a different title on the US and UK Amazon sites and appears only to be available as a paperback in the US and only as a kindle version in the UK - at least on the Amazon sites. Unless I am searching wrongly.
Main Amazon US site, "Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice":
http://www.amazon.com/Belle-Slave-Daughter-Chief-Justice/dp/0062310771 /ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410333896&sr=8-1
UK Amazon site, "Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle":
www.amazon.co.uk/Belle-True-Story-Dido-ebook/dp/B00FIUO9Z4/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&qid=1410334096&sr=8-1
It's loosely based on a true story. Going off Paula Byrne's book, there's very little in the historical record about Belle and her husband. Some people in this film are fictional, such as the family she almost married in to. I'm not saying this should keep anyone from enjoying the film, I just wanted to point that out.
shareThe best thing in the film other than the little shove to end slave trade is the wonderful love story and here you say it's not factual, makes me sad.
shareThe love story is by no mean factual.
After Lord Mansfield's death, his successor-nephew just got rid of her, matching her with his french steward (or servant) John Davinier. She wasn't welcomed in Kenwood House anymore, got some money from her uncle - so why not? Even if she was kind of 30 illegitimate black and born as a slave. That he had nothing not difficult to guess.