Who is the master? Who is the slave?Falconhurst -- the south's greatest slave-breeding plantation -- has known great heights of glory and grueling hard times. But a new adventure begins when Master Hammond returns from Africa with Obed -- a Mandingo!Ham desperately needs Obed's rippling muscles, seething virility, and pure Mandingo blood to spawn a new generation of what Falconhurst is famous superior-quality black flesh.There's only one problem. Obed is fierce, dignified, and spirited. He refuses to be anybody's slave!In a battle of wills as old as humanity itself, cruel white slave-breeder and proud black slave will test the limits of each other's determination. And the future of Falconhurst hangs in the balance...
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.