Both are products of interracial relationships.
The production gets a credibility boost from the casting of Jasmine Guy as Easter and Halle Berry as Queen. Their passion produces a fair-skinned daughter, Queen. Queen’s mother, Easter, a light-skinned slave, is the not-very-secret love of James Jackson Jr., the progressive-thinking, compassionate son of the owner of a stately cotton plantation. The miniseries begins in 1841, a few years before her birth, at a time when the issues that would ignite into the Civil War were beginning to smolder. Queen was the product of a love affair between a slave and a plantation owner. But it is a story that is riveting, educational and entertaining. The atrocities associated with slavery, segregation and blatant racial discrimation are revisited, and even though they have become familiar, they are no less disturbing. It probably was not a comfortable story for the family at the grave, and it will not be for the viewing audience.
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