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Mandingo

Part of the Falconhurst series

Mandingo is a novel written in 1957 by Kyle Onstott. The book is set in the 1830s in the antebellum South primarily around Falconhurst, a fictional plantation in Alabama owned by the planter Warren Maxwell. The narrative centers on Maxwell, his son Hammond, and the Mandingo (or Mandinka) slave Ganymede, or Mede. It is a tale of cruelty toward the blacks of that time, containing vicious fights, poisoning, and violent

Genre
historical fictionliterary fiction
Themes
slaveryafrican american
Setting
american south
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 639 pages

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