I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem

A Novel by Maryse Condé"Tituba and I lived for a year on the closest of terms. During our endless conversations she told me things she had confided to nobody else." -Maryse Condé "Tituba looked for her story in the history of the Salem witch trials and could not find it. I have looked for my history in the story of the colonization of this continent and I have found silences, omissions, distortions, and fleeting, enigmatic insinuations. Tituba's quest for recorded evidence of her existence as a living, feeling, loving, active individual, who was as much a part of the Salem witch trials as her codefendants of European descent, leads her to a belittling, cursory allusion: 'Tituba, a slave originating from the West Indies and probably practicing 'hoodoo.'' She counters this footnote that condemns her to insignificance with a strong, self-affirming 'I, Tituba... Witch.' Maryse Condé lends her the words that assist her to tell you and me her story, speaking her life in her own voice- from t