![]() In 1688, a White female playwright and writer named Aphra Behn published a novel called Oroonoko in order to unveil the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. It was also manipulated by literary figures outraged by the transatlantic slave trade. Roman history and its familiar tales were frequently appropriated by French revolutionaries fighting to overthrow the monarchy. ![]() In Grégory Pierrot’s 2019 book, The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture, the impact of Roman motifs used in plays on the British and French stage are carefully examined. Abolitionism expanded its reach on the stage. The other tale, that of the Thracian gladiator named Spartacus who challenged Rome and her republic in the first century BCE, would also be repackaged. A woman’s death had justified the creation of a patriarchal republic in Rome. ![]() Her plight was famously written down by the likes of Livy and Ovid hundreds of years later, but would be used in the plays of the Enlightenment to justify the establishment of a government that protected women - but also excluded them from participation. They vowed to avenge her death, which led to the overthrow of Rome’s monarchy and the founding of the Res Publica (“Republic”) in 509 BCE. Cast as the paragon of virtue and chastity, the Roman noblewoman Lucretia killed herself in the late 6th century BCE, after telling her husband and father she had been raped by Sextus Tarquinius, the son of the king.
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