Oroonoko, or, The royal slave

I won't lie and say that this is an abolitionist, anti-slavery narrative that the author is trying to push. However, this is as close to any kind of sympathetic and albeit slightly realistic depiction of the horrors that African slaves had to go through. Aphra does paint Prince Oroonoko's story with a lot of “Otherness” and curiosity of how “his” people operate. Very demeaning in the way that white people were back then, but this is to be expected. For what it was, this story was decent. And very emotional.