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Oroonoko

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn , published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and execution.


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