Many instances of implied sex slavery and prostitution.

A fully frontal nude slave woman waits in bed for the masters son, who strips and approaches her in the bed fully frontal nude.

Several moments throughout of topless women, as well as some full frontal female and male nudity.

One slightly graphic sex scene.

A few fistfights, one of which escalates brutally until the two are bloody and beaten. In that same fight, the fighters take gory bites out of each other.

A man is hanged.

A man gets shot twice (some blood), pushed into a pot of boiling water and stabbed with a pitchfork.

Another guy gets shot. No blood.

Some beatings, tortures and whippings.

A handful of "ass" or "shit", but most of all the n-word is used nearly non-stop and often quite casually.

Some people get drunk or some pipes and the like.

The film is loaded with numerous disturbing and intense scenes regarding the treatment of slaves in the Civil War-era South. The film may be hard for some to get through due to its infrequent but grisly violence and sleazy, often harsh dialogue.