The drive to remain a civilised nation depended in part upon the retention of a class system, as “anxieties of English barbarism were far from banished from the cultural psyche of the educated classes” . The lack of political discipline created this fear. Aphra Behn defies this fear and creates a new concept of “barbarian”. She represents the Africans in a new way and never seen before. She described them with sympathy, as human beings belonging to a social class and with rights and freedoms to choose. Her conception of slave ceased to be a monetary possession and an object for an owner.
