Is this movie airing again? On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Kelwyn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > This morning I saw this movie "Captive Heart: the James Mink Story" > starring Lou Gossett, Kate Nelligan, Michael Jai White and Ruby Dee. It is > an amazing mind screw about how twisted is slavery and its legacy. > > An escaped slave, James Mink runs away to Canada where he becomes a wealthy > and influential man. He marries a white woman, has a bi-racial child and, > because he doesn't want to sully his daughter by having her marry a black > man he offers a huge dowry to any respectable white man who will marry her. > > He finds one but the man turns out to be a vicious slave trader who gang > rapes his daughter before selling her into slavery back in the American > south. > > Posing as his wife's slave, Mink eventually rescues his daughter, several > other slaves and the black man, a slave, she has fallen in love with. > > Mink's actions to save his daughter are bold and heroic but since was his > self-hate and knuckleheadism that led to his daughter's servitude in the > first place I am deeply conflicted about adding him to > http://theworldebon.blogspot.com > > >
