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  Oroonoko

  Or, The Royal Slave. A True History

  by Aphra Behn

  When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko reflects the author’s romantic views of... (more)
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  The Middle Passage

  Impressions of Five Societies: British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America

  by V. S. Naipaul

  In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that they can scarcely believe that the... (more)
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  Chrysalis

  Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

  by Kim Todd

  Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist known for her botanical illustrations, she was born just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty she sailed from Europe to the New World on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis—an unheard-of journey for any naturalist at that time, much less a woman. When she... (more)
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  Winti: Afro-Surinaamse religie en magische rituelen in Suriname en Nederland

  by Henri J. M. Stephen

  Text: Dutch
• De macht van de fodoe-winti: Fodoe-rituelen in de winti-kultus in Suriname en NederlandHenri J. M Stephen

  

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  De macht van de fodoe-winti: Fodoe-rituelen in de winti-kultus in Suriname en Nederland

  by Henri J. M. Stephen

  Text: Dutch
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  Wanneer wij samen zijn

  by Karin Amatmoekrim

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  Oroonoko (Norton Critical Editions)

  by Aphra Behn

  This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Aphra Behn’s best-known and most influential work makes available the original 1688 text, the only text published in her lifetime. The editor supplies explanatory annotations and textual notes. "Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers and slaves in the new world. Topically... (more)