MANDINGO

MANDINGO is a 1975 American historical melodrama film that focuses on the ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE in the Antebellum South. The film's title refers to the MANDINKA people, who are referred to as "MANDINGO'S", and described as being good slaves for BATTLE ROYALS, Where Slaves fought to the death leaving one Slave standing. The word is also used as a pejorative to describe a hypersexual Black man.