![]() ![]() Behn’s work is highly contradictory in the sense that although she breaks the Aristotelian models of writing fiction, she promotes Aristotle’s idea of hierarchy in defense of an absolute monarchy. Oroonoko is often interpreted as an anti-slavery novel because of the way the narrator describes the struggle and injustices of a Coromantin slave from the Gold Coast, what is present-day Ghana. Most of the slaves came from the Gold Coast, and in particular from modern-day Ghana. The story of Oroonoko’s abduction is plausible, for such raids did take place, but English slave traders avoided them where possible for fear of accidentally capturing a person who would anger the friendly groups on the coast. For the most part, English slavers dealt with slave-takers in Africa and rarely captured slaves themselves. ![]() ![]() In 1662, the Duke of York got a commission to supply 3,000 slaves to the Caribbean, and Lord Willoughby was also a slave trader. The colony of Surinam began importing slaves in the 1950s, since there were not enough indentured servants coming from England for the labour-intensive sugar cane production. Aphra Behn composed the novel Oroonoko in 1688 and based on her trip Surinam. ![]()
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