Blog #5 Aphra Behn was trying to understand men of color, but she chose a certain kind of colored men. She wanted the glory in her documentary, because her heart was on her assignement and not on her subject. This is the way the Americans looked at African and any other race that wanted white. All races other than white, were prospects for future captivity. "Far from condemning slavery, however, Behn seems to take its existence for granted … The enslavement of Oroonoko and his companions is lamented because it is based on the kind of treacherous overreaching practiced by tradesmen, but slavery itself is condoned … The narrator (Behn) objects to the royal class of people being enslaved, not to the act of enslavement itself." Behn never really saw slavery as a bad thing. she looked at slavery as a way of life. Slavery was just another way Americans stole and sold to become wealthy. This was not her fault, she only believe what she was taught by her parents. She looked a Oroon...
The
Enlightenment Period was a flashlight to those who were in darkness. This
period gave knowledge to those that were blind to from past century ago. This
period not only opened their eyes, but it was also a period restoration. This
mean that the present king was in the process of rebuilding and restoring was
lost and hidden. The process that was going on back then, kind of relates to
the process that is going on in the 21st century. The
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