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Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works

By Aphra Behn, Janet Todd (Introduction)
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By Aphra Behn, Janet Todd (Introduction)
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"We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues"

When Prince Oroonoko?s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko?s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn?s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko (1688) refl...

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