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Her story would become the inspiration for the Hollywood movies ''[[Anna and the King of Siam (film)|Anna and the King of Siam]]'' and ''[[Anna and the King]]'' and the [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]] musical ''[[The King and I]]'', which, because of their fictionalized historical references and perceived disrespectful treatment of King Mongkut, were initially banned in Thailand as the Thai government and people considered them to be [[Lèse majesté in Thailand|lèse majesté]]. To clarify the historical record, well-known Thai intellectuals [[Seni Pramoj|Seni]] and [[Kukrit Pramoj]] in 1948 wrote ''The King of Siam Speaks''. The Pramoj brothers sent their manuscript to the American politician and diplomat [[Abbot Low Moffat]]<ref>[http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/findaids/apap063.htm#history Abbot Low Moffat]</ref> (1901–1996), who drew on it for his 1961 biography, ''Mongkut the King of Siam''. Moffat donated the Pramoj manuscript to the United States [[Library of Congress]] in 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/guide/guide-southeast.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-08-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6FAzLJFiw?url=http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/guide/guide-southeast.html |archivedate=2013-03-17 |df= }} (Southeast Asian Collection, Asian Division, Library of Congress)</ref>
Anna claimed that her conversations with Prince Chulalongkorn about human freedom, and her relating to him the story of ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'', became the inspiration for his abolition of [[slavery]] almost 40 years later. However, the slavery system in Siam differed from that in the United States with no racial distinction between slaves and free persons. Slavery in Thailand was sometimes a voluntary alternative for individuals to be rid of social and financial obligations.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rodriguez |first=Junius P. |title=The historical encyclopedia of world slavery |year=1997 | page = 631 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, Calif. |isbn=9780874368857 |edition=2nd print.}}</ref> One could be punished for torturing slaves in Siam and some slaves could buy their freedom. Some western scholars and observers have expressed the opinion that Siamese slaves were treated better than English servants.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kyotoreviewsea.org/slavery1.htm |title=Slavery in Nineteenth Century Northern Thailand: Archival Anecdotes and Village Voices |publisher=Kyoto Review |year=2006 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626215506/http://kyotoreviewsea.org/slavery1.htm |archivedate=2007-06-26 |df= }}</ref>
==Death and legacy==
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