• Primary Sources
  • Read all of: Behn. Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave: A True History (1688)
  • Optional
    • alternative/supplement to written texts: Audio Version from Librivox
    • Browse some of the following adaptations and related materials:
      • Southerne
      • Kitty Cut-a-Dash
      • Ferriar
      • Griffth
      • Bandele-Thomas
• Journal Articles
  • Richardson. Consuming Indians: Tsonnonthouan, Colonialism, and the Commodification of Culture
  • Schweitzer. Native Sovereignty and the Archive: Samson Occom and Digital Humanities
• Blog Posts
  • Zuroski. "Academic Land Acknowledgment for Settler Scholars: A Guest Post"
  • Friedler. “Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Explained"
• Journals/Anthologies

  Resources

  Articles
  • Bross and Wyss. Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology
    • Read Intro and a section of your choice
  • Kim. Special Issue: Critical Race and the Middle Ages. Literature Compass 16.9-10 (September-October 2019)
    • Read Intro and an article of your choice
  • Digital Projects
    • The Occum Circle Project
    • Literature in Context
    • Locate Yourself on this Map:https://native-land.ca/
  • Weird old notes from Bill Warner
  • Archived Annotated Bibliography by Jack Lynch (1994)
  • British Library Online Exhibit on Oroonoko

• Beach, Adam R. “Behn’s Oroonoko, the Gold Coast, and Slavery in the Early-Modern Atlantic World.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 39 (2010) 215-233

  Yang, Chi-Ming. “Asia out of Place: The Aesthetics of Incorruptibility in Behn’s Oroonoko.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 42.2 (Winter, 2009): 235-253

• Books You Can Access Online Through Howard Realted to Oroonoko
  • Versions of Blackness : Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century, edited by Derek Hughes, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://search-proquest-com.proxyhu.wrlc.org/legacydocview/EBC/311255?accountid=11490.
  • Elmer, Jonathan. On Lingering and Being Last : Race and Sovereignty in the New World, Fordham University Press, 2008. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://search-proquest-com.proxyhu.wrlc.org/legacydocview/EBC/3239725?accountid=11490.
  • Caulker, Tcho Mbaimba. The African-British Long Eighteenth Century : An Analysis of African-British Treaties, Colonial Economics, and Anthropological Discourse, Lexington Books, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://search-proquest-com.proxyhu.wrlc.org/legacydocview/EBC/466775?accountid=11490.
  • MacDonald, Joyce Green. Women and Race in Early Modern Texts, Cambridge University Press, 2002. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://search-proquest-com.proxyhu.wrlc.org/legacydocview/EBC/202170?accountid=11490.
  • Wallace, Elizabeth. The British Slave Trade and Public Memory, Columbia University Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://search-proquest-com.proxyhu.wrlc.org/legacydocview/EBC/908411?accountid=11490.
  • Ferguson, Margaret W.. Dido's Daughters : Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France, University of Chicago Press, 2003. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://search-proquest-com.proxyhu.wrlc.org/legacydocview/EBC/408235?accountid=11490.
  • Cartelli, Thomas. Repositioning Shakespeare : National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations, Taylor & Francis Group, 1999. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://search-proquest-com.proxyhu.wrlc.org/legacydocview/EBC/165182?accountid=11490.
  • Waters, Hazel. Racism on the Victorian Stage : Representation of Slavery and the Black Character, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://search-proquest-com.proxyhu.wrlc.org/legacydocview/EBC/288652?accountid=11490.
  • Mallipeddi, Ramesh. Spectacular Suffering : Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic, University of Virginia Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://search-proquest-com.proxyhu.wrlc.org/legacydocview/EBC/4454521?accountid=11490.

Misc
Kea, Ray A. A Cultural and Social History of Ghana from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: The Gold Coast in the Age of Trans-Atlantic Trade. 2 Volumes.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

——.Settlement, Trade, and Polities in the Seventeenth Century Gold Coast. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.

Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. New York: Vintage, 1999.

• This includes the reference from our discussion of Red Atlantic on the capture and selling of members from New England tribal nations throughout the Atlantic, including one mention of ship taking them to ports in Africa.

Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780-1860. Ithaca; Cornell University Press, 2000.

• This is still probably the best book on New England slavery and its repercussions. If you are interested in this topic, there’s a resource list here.

Perbi, Akousa A. A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana: From the 15th to the 19th Century.  Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2004.

Weaver, Jace. The Red Atlantic American Indigenes and the Making of t