Stowe’s aging Uncle Tom though, Oroonoko is a young warrior whose princely spirit remains untamed until the end. As the complete title “Oroonoko, Or The Royal Slave” conveys, the book tells the story of an African prince, Oroonoko, who is tricked and captured by English colonists, then sold in slavery and kept at a plantation in Britian. Whether you take the content or the form, it’s a bit challenging to place it effortlessly and under a single, befitting label.įirst published in 1688 (William Canning, London), Oroonoko is regarded as one of the first English novels, and almost certainly the first anti-slavery novel-provided we agree on it being a novel as against novella (or long story).
Reading Oroonoko is what in the literary sphere one might regard as receiving an invitation to debate.
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