I Tituba Black Witch of Salem

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This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba who was accused of witchcraft in Salem Massachusetts arrested in 1692 and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Cond brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood adolescence and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero an epic heroine like the legendary Nanny of the maroons " who schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her. CARAF Books:Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French This book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities an independent federal agencY.