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- noun Plural form of
Mandingo .
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The Mandingos are a Mohammedan, proselytizing race, strictly sober, industrious, intellectual and sincere, serious men.
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People berating you for writing Magic Negroes or Mandingos, Castrating Bitches or Depraved Faggots -- that's not censorship.
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The Mandingos had been in Liberia for about as long as anybody else, but somehow Liberians still thought of them as outsiders.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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The Mandingos had been in Liberia for about as long as anybody else, but somehow Liberians still thought of them as outsiders.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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The Mandingos had been in Liberia for about as long as anybody else, but somehow Liberians still thought of them as outsiders.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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The Mandingos had been in Liberia for about as long as anybody else, but somehow Liberians still thought of them as outsiders.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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Dinkas, and Mandingos, thousands of miles apart; all share the same fondness for duiker meat and for duiker-skin clothes.
26 Mouse Deer 1991
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I would watch their faces when I told them about that, because the white man had completely erased the slaves 'past, a Negro in America can never know his true family name, or even what tribe he was descended from: the Mandingos, the Wolof, the Serer, the Fula, the Fanti, the Ashanti, or others.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964
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Among the Mandingos of the coast of Sierra Leone, the girls approaching puberty are taken by the women of the village to an out-of-the-way spot in the forest, where they remain for a month and a day in strictest seclusion, no one being permitted to see them except the old woman who has charge of their circumcision.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Among them, as among the Mandingos, education, to the point of reading the Koran and writing, was not infrequent.
Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831. Ed. John Franklin Jameson. From The American Historical Review, 30, No. 4. (July 1925), 787-795 John Franklin 1925
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