Sujet : Aphra Behn born (14/12/1640)
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English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator of the Restoration era.
Author of _Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave_ (1688),
"one of the earliest novels in English" (Crystal)
"sometimes described as an early novel" (Wiki)
"regarded as one of the first abolitionist and humanitarian novels published in the English language" (Wiki)
Oroonoko is an African prince who is sold into slavery in Surinam. Behn is supposed to have traveled to Surinam; if so, Oroonoko may be based on an actual person she met. See Wiki for much that is uncertain or speculative about her life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn
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