Oroonoko

In 1663 Aphra visited an English sugar-plantation near the Surinam river, where, according to her, she had a long talk with a black-skinned noble-born slave, whose story eventually became a basis for her novel Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. The main character of this work, that developed a gallant novel, is prince Oroonoko who travels to the New World in search of the love of his life, Imoinda, s...