The Courage to Love is a 2000 television history film starring Vanessa L. Williams, who was also the producer.

Filming began in August 1999 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was scheduled to last two months.

Henriette Delille, a free woman of color, was born in 1813 into one of New Orleans' most prominent families.

Her family assumed she would follow her mother and sister's path and become a mistress for a wealthy white man.

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