Newberry Library lesson using digitized primary source explores how Aphra Behn's novel, Oroonoko, compares to other representations of race, slavery, and colonialism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Questions to consider are included.

Additional Tags

africa and the slave trade, olaudah equiano, revolutionary france and haiti, results of european colonization, slave trade

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)