Oroonoko: or the Royal Slave

Oroonoko: or the Royal Slave is a work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. It was also adapted into a play. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to European colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn''s text is a first-person account of Oroonoko''s life love rebellion and execution.