Oroonoko - The Royal Slave

My dear friends and fellow sufferers, should we be slaves to an unknown people?......we are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the support of women, fools and cowards, and the support of rogues and runagades that have abandoned their own countries for raping, murders, theft and villainies.                                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                              - Oroonoko   

 Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

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