Oroonoko, or the History of the Royal Slave
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Oroonoko, or the History of the Royal Slave, a novel by A.
Behn (
c.1688), adapted for the stage by
Southerne (1695).
Oroonoko, grandson and heir of an African king, loves and wins Imoinda, daughter of the king's general. The king, who also loves her, is enraged and orders her to be sold as a slave. Oroonoko himself is trapped by the captain of an English slave-trading ship and carried off to Surinam, then an English colony, where he is reunited with Imoinda and renamed Caesar by his owners. He rouses his fellow slaves to revolt, is deceived into surrender by deputy-governor Byam (a historical figure), and brutally whipped. Oroonoko, determined on revenge but not hoping for victory, kills Imoinda, who dies willingly. He is discovered by her dead body and cruelly executed.
The novel is remarkable as an early protest against the slave- trade. The author comments on the superior simplicity and morality of both African slaves and the indigenous Indians, whose Christian oppressors are shown as treacherous and hypocritical. Afra Behn's memories of her own visit to Surinam in 1663 provide a vivid background. Southerne's tragedy follows the broad lines of the novel, with alterations which decrease the violence of the story and increase its intended pathos.
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