Mandingo Page #5

What I'm a-sayin'...

What I'm a-feelin'...

You ain't

touched me...

You want to be

with me?

Huh?

You ain't

touched me.

I want you

to touch me.

Please, hammond.

I need you.

Huh?

Touch me.

Oh, please

touch me!

Uhh!

You sure are a strange

kind of white lady.

Time I was

a little 'un...

Lucrezia borgia used to

fan me to sleep.

Lucrezia borgia

say I knocked.

She say I been missin'

my time of month.

Hell,

what she know?

She got 24 suckers.

They kinda itch, like,

and ache a little.

Mayhaps, she is right.

Now you won't be

wantin' me no more.

You'll be sellin' me

again.

Oh, ellen, honey,

now, I ain't never

gonna sell you.

You're mine.

You ain't mad.

No.

This how mad I be.

You be gonna

sell our sucker?

No, I ain't.

No, I won't

do that neither,

ellen.

But you're

gonna sell

dotty's sucker.

Now, now,

that's different.

Our sucker, we...

We keep him,

Raise him right here

at falconhurst.

Ha ha.

That make you glad?

Ha ha. Good.

Hammond...

Hammond, can I

ask you somethin'?

Mm-hmm.

When our sucker

growed up,

can he go free?

Can you give him

his freedom?

You crazy

to be free?

Is you crazy

to be free?

No.

Well, then what for

you want the sucker

to go free?

'cause for a buck...

For a boy child,

A lot of misery

don't happen to him.

He don't get whupped

when the master

wants to whup him.

He don't get penned

on a patch of land

like a pig...

Can't never go nowhere

or do nothin'.

Can't learn

to read or write lessen

he get beat or killed.

Hammond.

Uhh!

Forget about it.

I damn right gonna

forget about it.

Ellen.

It mean

that much to you...

Oh, ellen, honey,

all right.

All right, honey.

The sucker can go free.

I promise you.

The sucker

can go free.

N*gger-risin',

maxwell!

That n*gger of yours-

cicero-stole a gun

from me and run off.

Got some others

to join.

We ain't seen them

here, birch.

We done catched

two of them.

I'd like to help you

get 'em, mr. Wallace.

Well, come on, then.

Mede, you come

with me.

Mr. Wallace!

Mr. Wallace! They're

in the south quarter!

Ha ha ha ha!

Hyah!

They in there!

They wounded

four of us!

Four!

It's cicero!

I'll get cicero!

Come on!

Come on, boys!

I'll get him!

Come on!

Aah! Uhh!

Mede! Get him!

Yahh!

You hold me

for a peckerwood?

Peckerwood'll kill me!

Be like you

killin' me!

You be puttin' the rope

around my neck yourself.

What you think you is,

a hound dog?

Peckerwood say go fetch,

you fetch.

You see me hang,

you're gonna know...

You're gonna

know you kill

a black brother!

Uhh!

Cicero.

Uhh!

O.K., stiles,

ought to at least

check that rope.

Mayhaps I could've got away,

or be for you catchin' me.

You 'member that.

You 'member

that all day.

You killed me.

You 'member that.

You killed me.

Because, like,

you just proved what

the peckerwood say-

We're just beasts,

willin' to do

anything,

Kill each other.

No mind.

No feelin'.

Shut up, n*gger!

Uhh! Leastwise,

I ain't gonna die

like you gonna die-

Like a slave!

I ain't givin'

no lifetime of misery

and sweat

To this peckerwood!

I'd rather die

than be a slave!

You peckerwood!

That's right!

You peckerwood

was oppressed

in your own land!

We was free, and

you brought us here...

In chain.

Well, now we're here...

And you just better know-

This is just as much

our land as it is yourn.

And after you hang me...

Kiss my ass.

Hyah!

Hoo!

Hyah!

Orleans a long way

to go to see a fight.

This one gonna

be worth it.

I'm trustin' falconhurst

to you while we gone.

Take care

of everything.

You got him trained

real good?

Well, I reckon

he could use

another two weeks.

I fine, massa.

Whups anybody

you want.

Ha ha!

Ha ha!

get in, mede.

Hyah!

Bye, mede!

Bye, mede!

Goodbye, mede!

Good luck!

Bye, mede!

Good luck, mede!

Mede, good luck!

Tense?

Tense...

Bring me

that wench

ellen!

Bring her to me!

You heard me!

Fetch her!

Uhh!

Get in this room.

Now...

You're gonna take

all your clothes off.

Get 'em off!

Miss blanche.

You hear me?

Ellen knocked.

You knocked?

you knocked?

I'm gonna whup

that sucker

right outta you.

Pig!

Filthy!

Dirty!

Dirty, dirty,

pig!

Aah!

You hear me?

You're a pig!

A whore!

A goddamn whore!

Ohh!

A pig of pigs!

Aah!

You...

Dumb animal!

Dumb!

Fornicator!

Fornicatin'

animal!

Oh, god!

Miss blanche!

Oh, no, miss blanche!

Please!

Oh, no, miss blanche!

Get away from me!

Please! No,

you can't,

miss blanche!

Aah!

Miss blanche!

Aah! Aah!

Leave her alone!

Uhh!

Messieurs!

Messieurs et mesdames,

your attention, please!

This evening,

Through the kindness

and gracious hospitality

Of new orleans'

preeminent

Patroness of all manly

and recreational sports...

I am alluding

to madame caroline...

This evening...

This evening we are

privileged to witness

An epic battle

Between mr. Hammond

maxwell's slave mede...

Yay! Hooray!

Hooray!

Hooray!

And the slave

Belonging to

marquis bena deveve-

Topaz!

Hooray!

Yay!

Yay!

Hooray!

Champion of the island

of jamaica!

It is a fight

to the finish

With no holds

barred!

Yay!

Yay!

Yay!

Very well,

gentlemen!

Let them fight!

Oh!

Come on, mede!

Hit him back!

God damn, that topaz is

a seasoned fighter, doc!

God damn! Mede's whupped!

He can't whup him noways!

Come on, fight.

Unhh!

Aaahhh...

Aaahhh...

Uhhhhh...

Uhhhh...

Uhh!

Uhh!

Come on!

Come on, mede!

Aaaahhhh!

Aah!

Aaahhh!

Uhh!

Fight!

Come on!

Oh! Oh!

I yield!

I yield the fight!

I'll pay the match!

Stop it! Stop it!

I yield the fight!

I yield the fight!

Oomph!

Come on! Come on!

Oh, no! No, god, no!

Aaahhh!

Let him go!

Aaahhh!

Mede, get up!

Aaahhh!

Aaahhh!

Aaaahhhh!

Aaahhh!

Come on, mede!

Aaaahhhh!

Go, mede!

Hit him, man!

Hit him!

Come on, mede!

Aaahhh!

Come on!

Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah!

Get up!

Get him up!

Get him up!

Hey.

Aah!

Aah!

Oh!

We won!

Papa, we won!

We killed him!

Stand back!

Mede!

Mede, we won!

Stand back!

Stand back!

Mede,

do you hear me?

Do you hear me?

We won!

Mede! Do you

hear me, boy?

Oh, god damn!

We killed him!

We won, my boy!

You did it!

I'll offer you

$10,000 for him.

No, sir. I ain't

a-gonna sell him,

Not to make him

fight again.

He said $10,000, ham.

God damn it, papa!

You always wanted

a mandingo.

Now you encourage me

to sell him!

$10,000! That's more

than the purse.

No, sir! I ain't

a-gonna sell him.

As you wish.

We won some

fancy money.

Folks everywhere's gonna

hear about falconhurst.

Ain't nothin' worth

all this fightin'...

And killing.

You're letting him

say that?

I reckon I is.

You can rile me

sometimes.

I reckon you ought to

bring your wife a present.

Rubies.

White ladies

fond of them.

Come on, boys!

Whoo!

Hyah!

Yee-hoo!

Ha ha!

Whoo!

Whoa.

Hah!

We won!

Killed that topaz

just like that!

Bit him in the neck!

Blood spurtin'

like a fountain.

Ahh.

I'll be here within,

lucrezia borgia.

Fine, massa.

Come on, mede.

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