to the support of rogues, runagades that have abandoned their own countries, for raping, murders, thefts and villainies." Refers to the oppressive colonizers as 'tyrant's whip'.
No, but we are bought and sold like apes, or monkeys. my dear friends and fellow sufferers, should we be slaves to an unknown people? Have they vanquished us nobly in fight? Have they won us nobly in flight? Have they won us in honourable battle? And are we, by the chance of war, become their slaves?. He and his fellow slaves had not been won laudably in war they were captured and sold like animals, and to serve ignominious masters: "And why. That they had lost the divine quality of men, and were become insensible asses, fit only to bear." As Oroonoko's speech to his fellow slaves suggests, it is dishonorable and treacherous enslavement that the novel objects to, not the existence of slavery as an institution. Oroonoko's rallying speech: "They suffered not like men who might find a glory, and fortitude in oppression, but like dogs that loved the whip and bell and fawned the more they were beaten.
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