- Slave trade, Fiction, Princes, Slaves
<em>Oroonoko</em> (1688)—full title Oroonoko:<em> or, The Royal Slave</em>—is a short work of prose fiction by English poet and writer Aphra Behn. This text is a first-person account of Oroonoko’s life and his ensuing journey after the African prince is tricked into slavery and sold to European colonists in Surinam.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Aphra Behn
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 132
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Ryerson Pressbooks, Pressbooks
- Editions
- 152
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798490901488
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