Oroonoko, or, The royal slave

You know, on an some level I could probably put this higher, but with the terribleness of it all I can't really bring myself to it.
The storyteller is a racist among other racists, and it comes through in every description of people who aren't white just how racist she is. On top of that, she wants to employ sympathy from the reader for her and her friends, almost just as much as for the main character of the story. And then there's the glossing over of these really terrible and awful acts as if they're not completely appalling. I just can't.
It's definitely an interesting read, but there's just so much bad shit from the author's side that I'm like.... no.

I won't lie and say that this is an abolitionist, anti-slavery narrative that the author is trying to push. However, this is as close to any kind of sympathetic and albeit slightly realistic depiction of the horrors that African slaves had to go through. Aphra does paint Prince Oroonoko's story with a lot of “Otherness” and curiosity of how “his” people operate. Very demeaning in the way that white people were back then, but this is to be expected. For what it was, this story was decent. And very emotional.