W.E.B. Du Bois said, on the launch of his groundbreaking 1903 treatiseThe Souls of Black Folk,“for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line”—a prescient statement. Setting out to show to the reader “the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning...
Summary OfThe Dying Negro By Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and “The Dying Negro” by John Bicknell and Thomas Day are two texts that have shaped the way British authors capture the slave narrative. Both texts were written by white, British people. Both texts have the tendenc...