Bodies Through Oroonoko, by Christina Woodson, no use of this work allowed without written consent
Christina Woodson Professor Michael-Smith English 250A May 1, 2023 Bodies Through Oroonoko Morality, and its functions within topics such as racism and racism through slavery, is a topic that changes and will not function with a single answer. A good example of this, and how slavery as well as racism functioned depending on time, who is in charge of narratives, where it took place, and especially ties with the past. Oroonoko is a story that tells of an African slave whose experience functioned and changed, not only because of his narratively written superhuman beauty but also because the narrative was written by a white woman who clearly had some affection towards him for these traits and attributes. This story juxtaposes the slave narrative written by Equiano in a later part of the Norton Anthology that carries both of these depictions. With such contrasting stories, readers, whose main exposure to slavery may only be the context of the late eighteenth century, as well as only Ameri...