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By Derek Hughes
Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko (1688) is without doubt one of the most generally studied works of seventeenth-century literature, as a result of its strong illustration of slavery and complicated portrayal of the way within which differing races and cultures - ecu, Black African, and local American - discover and misread one another. This variation provides a brand new variation of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly complete and informative remark, in addition to entire texts of 3 significant British seventeenth-century works thinking about race and colonialism: Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668), Behn's Abdelazer (1676), and Thomas Southerne's tragedy Oroonoko (1696). It combines those with a wealthy anthology of ecu discussions of slavery, racial distinction, and colonial conquest from the mid-sixteenth century to the time of Behn's dying. Many are taken from very important works that experience now not hitherto been simply to be had, and the gathering deals an unequalled source for learning the tradition that produced Britain's first significant fictions of slavery.
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Her privities were hid with some pieces of old Garments, the Relicts of those Cloaths (I suppose) of them which first came hither, and yet being adorned with Flowers those very rags seemed beautiful; and indeed modesty so far prevaileth over all the Female Sex of that Island, that with grass and flowers interwoven and made strong by the peelings of young Elms (which grow there in great plenty) they do plant together so many of them as serve to cover those parts which nature would have hidden. We carried him as a present some few Knives, of which we thought they had great need, an Ax or Hatchet to fell Wood, which was very acceptable unto him, the Old one which was cast on shore at the first, and the only one that they ever had, being now so quite blunt and dulled, that it would not cut at all.
Wherein is contained. A True Relation of certain English persons, who in Queen Elizabeths time, making a Voyage to the East Indies were cast away, and wracked near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship making a Voyage to the East Indies, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount (as they suppose) to ten or twelve thousand persons. The whole Relation (written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild) Is here annexed with the Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the scituation and felicity thereof, with other matter observable.
1659 Birth of Thomas Southerne. 1660 Restoration of the monarchy. The theaters reopen. 1663–64 Aphra Behn probably visited Surinam. 1665 Second Dutch War begins. Great Plague of London. 1666 Behn sent as spy to Antwerp to obtain information about Dutch. Great Fire of London. 1667 The Dutch humiliate the British by sailing up the Medway to Chatham and destroying and capturing a number of ships, including “The Royal Charles,” which had brought Charles II back to England in 1660. The Treaty of Breda cedes Surinam to the Dutch.