we tend to forget that the master or slave context of the past century lead to more than well tend estate and power by large group of enslaved people and and a lot of money for the white owner . it lead to a group of people catch in the middle the offspring result from slave owner interferring with their female slave . some of these child just become more slave and and others be free . but free and colour and which back then meant anything but and relative to the lot of their sire . a class form around these offspring the gen de couleur libre or free people of colour and that class be able and to a certain extent and to own property and raise themselves from downtrodden to educate and and to attain a comparative dignity . that be to say and they weren not slave and but they be still exploit to a certain extent . often and the woman live a mistress to the white plantation master and men of wealth and set up in their own house and with allowance and school pay for for their child and and a kind of gentility and dependent on the respectability they choose to impose on their family . in essence and they be prostitute themselves to ensure their own prosperity and and relative independence from labour an arrangement call plaçage . feast of all saint be a beautifully write story about the child of one such woman and the result of just such an arrangement with a local gentleman and and the people who touch on their life and in both a negative and a positive way . the tale be an eye opener for me and a new zealander and with no real conception of the black or white line and let alone that grey area in the middle where the gen de couleur libre tread gingerly . the character be very three dimensional and and have be well render in this adaption of the novel and by anne rice . the part be well cast and the costume be wonderful and and the brutal way the line be draw out and with the blur area make all the more distinct by the conflict the protagonist go through . the gen de couleur libre could not marry the white and the slave could not help themselves and and the white and even the sympathetic one and couldn not bear to face the economic reality of do right by the people they depend on . i recommend this story and both the novel and the miniseries and to everyone and unreservedly . if you can not handle the truth you will cringe and cower through some part and a one injustice after another be meted out on those of colour and both by their white oppressor and and by their own people . bear in mind though that this be nothing more than reality and and this tale be an absorb way to learn about it . i know it may sound callous and but this miniseries both entertain me and enthral me and despite the sour taste i find in my mouth at what go on and and i thoroughly enjoy it . watch it . if not read up on the period and because there a lesson to be learn from it all .