I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

One of the problems that many African-Americans have encountered is their lack of knowledge of their own race's history. As Conde points out, "we hardly know what happened to our people before the time that they met the Europeans" (Conde 203). When Conde speaks of the Diaspora, she is talking about people who were formerly held captive, in a Biblical sense. Just as the Jews were dispersed among the Gentiles after being held in captivity in Babylon, Africans were taken as slaves to America, Brazil, and the West Indies. When the slaves were later freed, they had lost much of their knowledge of their own history and origins. Henc

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Mama Yaya taught her how to change the present by summoning help from "the invisible world," Tituba is powerless to foretell or change the future. Thus, Tituba realized that, despite her ability to communicate with the dead, she was still as much a victim to fate and the future as anyone else (Conde 34). Tituba remained confused about Christianity and believed that the whites' religion, like Satan, was something to be feared. (The whites, on the other hand think that Christ died to save them from their sins, and they view Christianity as a source of relief and inspiration.) One of the saddest parts of Tituba's life is that, after her mother died and she was taken in by Mama Yaya, Tituba was one of very few free black women in the New World. Not until she decided to live with John Indian did Tituba become a slave. John Indian is a slave owned by a stern woman, Susan Endicott. When Tituba decides to live with John Indian on Susan Endicott's property, Tituba too had to serve Mrs. Endicott. Susan Endicott later sells both John Indian and Tituba to a cruel, overbearing Puritan minister, Samuel Parris. Tituba was unaccustomed to the physical demands of a slave's life, and she was also especially unfamiliar with the inhumane tr
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