Literary conversation with Dryden and his Indian Queen 39
Description of Indians with their long black hair, painted faces, and pretty Features
They are like Europeans, before the Fall--pre-lapsarian  39
The Indians are modest; they are innocent and depend on Nature 40
They have not been corrupted by Religion or Civilization as we know it
They have no king, but war Captains instead
The English do not treat the Indians as slaves

Switch to West Africa 41
Coramantien--Gold Coast, slave trading station, in what is now Ghana; see map on 211
King of Coramantien rules over Oroonoko's people.
Old General: trains O.
Oroonoko: Grandson of King
His skin is "perfect ebony," his eyes are "piercing," his nose is "rising and Roman  instead of African and flat" 43
Well proportioned.
He vows to be true to Imoinda and he gives her 150 slaves with his complements 45

Imoinda: She is a Venus to his Mars
Reference to Plato: "he should have an eternal Idea in his Mind of the Charms she now bore, and shou'd look into his Heart for that Idea, when he cou'd find it no longer in her face" 46

Duty versus Love; Royal Veil: invitation to wed thing King 47
Foreshadowing of O's fate, that he would have to abandon his country with Imoinda if the marriage goes through 48
Otan: tent, part of the Orientalist vision
O. pretends to lose interest in Imoinda to accommodate the King 50
Aboan: young man who becomes a lover to Onahal and a friend to O.
Onahal: one of the King's older wives, a "cast-mistress" 52
"Do not fear a Woman's invention;" this reflects the author's self consciousness through her character 54
Oroonoko enters Imoinda's chamber and consummates his love
Imoinda lies to the King and says she has been ravished 57
The King realizes the sentence he has meted and he lies to O. rather than tell the truth about Imoinda
O. feels himself "abandon'd by Fortune" and refuses to fight 60
O. takes Jamoan as prisoner and then befriends him, as in Indian Queen 61
Captain of English ship tricks O. and his friends and entraps him 63
O. cannot kill himself as he might want to 64
O. trusts the Captain, but this is an unfounded trust
O. arrives in colony of King of England; he enters by traveling up river 66
O. meets Cornish gentleman, Trefry who befriends him 67
O. causes a stir among his people and those of Surinam
Behn self consciously refers to her own writing of the history "female pen" 69
O. and Imoinda take new names: Caesar and Clemene; they discover each other in the New World 72
She conceives and O. fears for the freedom of his wife and child 74
Behn warns O. not to agitate, for he might lose his freedom. 75
If the King  had seen Surinam, he would have never parted with the colony and given it to the Dutch 76
The English try to occupy O. so that he does not antagonize and stir up a rebellion 78