A slave trained to fight other slaves. "Mandingo, the pride of his masters! Mandingo, the strongest and the bravest!" "The term has been used to refer to that ethnic group," clarified Medford, "but it has also come to personify the very powerful enslaved man who's rather ferocious.

Why was it called Mandingo fighting?

In Django Unchained, Tarantino took the terminology of "Mandingo fighting" from the use of "a Mandingo" being a fine slave for breeding in the film.

Did Django fight in the Civil War?

Django is a 1966 Spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Corbucci starring Franco Nero as Django; a dismissed Union soldier who fought in the American Civil War. The film is set in 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War.