Mandingo Paperback – 1 Dec. 1961

Love this book and have been looking for a copy for a very long time. I bought it used but as always it came in near pristine condition. A great read.

Difficult to write a review on CDs, DVDs or books as they are very much a personal choice. This one took me back 30 years and was thoroughly enjoyable for me.

Still a thrilling read now as when I read it 30 years ago. Slavery was very cruel to black people, who weren’t treated as well as animals. The end is barbaric and cruel but no doubt reflects the reality of that period.

Insight into the slave trade in the deep south

I have started to read this book as it is the first book of the three that I p0urchased. Whilst I can remember the name of some of the people in the story and the history behind it, reading it again all these years later is like reading it for the first time!

Really hard reading as it is written as they would have spoken which cuts down your reading speed. Gave up eventually as little or nothing happening in the first hundred pages.

Good read

Best book ever written of the life in the deep South in America , the Falconhurst series are frilly written .

I read this book back in the 1970s or 80s, and decided to re-read it on my Kindle. Glad I did. Had forgotten much of the story over the years. Fascinating read about how some plantation owners went from cotton crops to crops of slaves when their land was all used up. Family life on an old plantation was such that not many knew much of what went on in the country, much less the world. Uneducated and ignorant to all else except their breeding of slaves and their own way of plantation life, even though the planters were supposedly "gentlemen born and bred" with wealth and power in their own regions. Their speech was not much better than the slaves they were raising for sale. Their morals were suspect at best, even if they claimed to be "good Christian white gentlemen and ladies". This book is a prime example of that depravity and less than Christian way of life. Slaves were nothing more than cattle to be fed and cared for so their value increased for later sale. Sad tales, and not for the feint of heart reader who knows nothing about slavery and its system.

Perfect as described

I thought that this book was dull and boring.

Book was delivered in record time, and was well packed and in good condition. I would most certainly recommend the seller.

un des meilleurs romans traitant de l'esclavage ; une écriture d'une force incroyable.la valeur de ce roman est dans l'écriture mais aussi dans l'analyse fine et approfondie du rapport ambigu qui pouvait se tisser entre les planteurs esclavagistes et les esclaves. A lire absolument.