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CLARIFYING THE ASSIGNMENT OROONOKO QUESTION ONE: Argue either for or against Ferguson's view of Oroonoko’s tale, as a promoter of European racism. Use evidence from the text to support your points. AGAIN THE ASSIGNMENT IS ABOUT THE ARTIcLE BY MOIRA FERGUSON regarding the author, Aphra Behn depiction of Africans and African slaves?

In her 1992 article of the book "Oroonoko: Birth of a Paradigm(model )," critic Moira Ferguson argues that Aphra Behn "constructs (insight) into West African history, in this story, with racist negative influences with blatant Eurocentrically(nose in the air, suck up white arrogance) in a discourse(conversation) that I shall call Anglo-African(. By Anglo-Africanism ( English speaking white Africans) I mean a colonialist discourse about slavery that unwittingly intensified negative attitudes toward(black) Africans in general and slaves in particular" (New Literary History 343).

In your original post of minimum 200 words. Then, in your response to another minimum 150 words personas view-point, argue the opposite side from what they have argued (whichever one it is!)