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I, Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem

In Maryse Conde's novel,"I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem,"Tituba went through various hardships in her life her witchcraft and being black got her into a lot of trouble. Also being with a man who turned on her. She ended up being hanged just when she finally got a chance to go back to Barbados she dies. Most stories of Tituba are always like this. But in article "The Further Transformation Of Tituba," we find that in Ann Petry's book, "Tituba of Salem Village," she goes through little or no hardships at all. So the following will closely examine how she was portrayed in "I, Tituba, Black Witch or Salem" and Tituba Of Salem Village."

In "The Further Transformation Of Tituba," some earlier accounts of her and John Indian were looked at as lazy, half demented, louts, with a cornpone dialect. But in Petry's book they were not lazy and spoke standard english;"The ships come and go to unload spices and silks and molasses and sugar........."this quote shows......


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