Explain how the three narratives critique the colonial system and the slave trade by using the frameworks of gender, class, and race?

Reviewers have pointed out that the film Belle (Dir. Amma Asante, 2013) addresses “gender/sexual politics, class issues, and the transatlantic slave trade” to retell the story of the Caribbean woman of colour and reclaim her from the margins of colonial history. It is possible to argue that two hundred years ago, the novel The Woman of Colour (Anonymous, 1808) and The History of Mary Prince (1831) addressed the same issues—from inside the very system that Belle depicts through the medium of film—for the same purpose. How do the three narratives critique the colonial system and the slave trade by using the frameworks of gender, class, and race?

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