Download or read book Oroonoko, Or, The Royal Slave written by Aphra Behn and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1987 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an edited text of Oroonoko, a seventeenth-century novel of love, passion, and the struggle for human dignity written by England's most eminent woman playwright, poet, and novelist of the day. The novel tells the story of a great African warrior who falls victim to treachery. As a result, he finds himself a slave in what is now Dutch Guinea. As an emancipation novel, the work gives insight into slave practices in both Africa and the New World Colonies.