Mandingo Master

Falconhurst #13

by Ashley Carter

Master Hammond, owner of Falconhurst, the South's greatest slave-breeding plantation, returns from Africa with Obed, a Mandingo warrior bought for breeding stock but who refuses to submit to slavery

342 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Pseudonym of Harry Whittington, who also wrote as Blaine Stevens and Harriet Kathryn Myers.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

against all my expectations, this was about as far as you could get from the cover. it was terrifyingly brutal, but aside from a handful of passages here and there which felt hyperbolic and/or stereotyped... i went in expecting a 1986 smut novel, and i came out of it feeling like it was an awful but accurate portrayal of the just-pre-civil war south, and of Jackson's invasion of spanish florida. it definitely fits as part of a saga (which it is), and it borders on an epic.
i highly doubt this could get published here, by anyone, nowadays. it was very hard for me to get through, but i have a very low tolerance for graphic violence. and this was damn full of it.
don't get me wrong, it's about as un-p.c. as you can get, and within the first ten pages there's a graphic description of someone being stewed to death. i wouldn't recommended it to anyone... and at the same time, if this is a period of history you're interested in... i almost would.

[Alucard]

Love that cover. Love all the plantation series of slave novels brough to life by 1977's "Roots"

[Varlee Kamara]

it want let me read it