Word: oroonoko
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American sentiments, an astonishing array of poets on both sides of the Atlantic were writing about the horrors of slavery. "The Wretches they to Christian climes bring o'er, / To serve worse heathens than they did before," wrote Daniel Defoe of trans-Atlantic slavetraders in 1702. In 1695 "Oroonoko", a popular London play, depicted plantation life and a bloody slave insurrection with striking sympathy: "If you saw the bloody Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan Samuel Sewall wrote against slavery in "The Selling of Joseph...
| 1 |