Tato sága se noří do temných zákoutí života na plantáži Falconhurst v období před občanskou válkou. Sleduje osudy bezohledné rodiny Maxwellových, jejichž ambice a krutost formují osudy všech kolem nich. Příběhy odhalují složité vztahy, společenské intriky a nelítostný boj o moc v atmosféře jižanského života. Jedná se o poutavé vyprávění, které zkoumá lidskou povahu v extrémních podmínkách.
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
The world of DRUM is a world of brutality, lust and miscegenation… where chained Negroes are sold like cattle…. Where prize specimens, male and female are chosen to work in exotic bordellos, and on slave-breeding plantations… where masters, drunk with the power of life and death, force their slaves to entertain them with unspeakable acts. Slaves and Masters... Tamboura-- born a prince in the jungles of Africa and sold into slavery; his beauty and nobility draw him into a forbidden alliance with blonde Alix, his owner's mistress. Alix-- a French countess, driven to become the most celebrated madam in New Orleans. Don Cesar-- an egocentric patrician whose wealth is the weapon he uses to turn whims into law. Drum-- son of Tamboura and Alix, who becomes the star performer in the mêlées given in his mother's brothel, and the most invincible prize-fighter in the South. Hammond Maxwell-- hates white women and black men, and owns the great slave-breeding plantation, Falconhurst, presided over by an elegant, enigmatic woman he acquires in a strange transaction. Drumson-- sold by his grandmother to sire slaves at Falconhurst, where the evils from the past and present explode in a thunderous slave uprising.
Black Man's Terror In A White Man's Body ...the violent, compelling story of a Falconhurst ex-slave who dares to pass as the white heir to a great Southern plantation. Against the savage backdrop of the South's infamous slave-breeding plantations, Flight To Falconhurst unfolds the turbulent drama of Calico, a handsome young Mustee, who embarks on a perilous impersonation, knowing that betrayal and death wait for him at every turn. Here is a powerful and lusty novel, written in the shocking, authentic tradition of Mandingo .