Mandingo fighting historical accuracy section I don t understand this I ve read the same review in a number of places which suggests slaves weren t organised to fight each other from one professor s comment that they never heard of it Yet information about the fighter Tom Molineaux suggests this did happen It seems a clear contradiction I can understand if there was absolutely nothing to suggest it ever happened which still wouldn t mean it didn t but there is an example of it happening There are a number of news articles stating that Molineaux won his freedom through fighting other slaves 137 111 13 200