If the author, Maryse Conde had actually I think been able to make me feel like she had a good sense of who Tituba was I would have enjoyed this more.Ĭonde decides to have Tituba tell her mother's story and her stepfather's story and how she came to be a free slave until she went to live with John Indian. Instead I found myself bored throughout the book. I really really really wish I had liked this more. Recommended for readers who enjoy retellings told from alternate character's viewpoint. Given the subject matter it was a somewhat heavy read, but I enjoyed it despite that and the frequency of magical realism, which usually makes me groan. To have an author open my eyes and teach me new things and different perspectives on history always makes me feel grateful. I had never heard previously that, among all the hysteria surrounding the SWTs, one of the accused was an enslaved woman, and I actually feel a little bit abashed never to even have considered that there was an enslaved population already at the time among early New England settlers. In this historical novel, Condé imagines Tituba's origins, her life in Barbados before being brought to Salem, and her life following the trials. Nearly forgotten among the infamy of the 17th-century Salem Witch Trials is the real account of Tituba, an enslaved woman who was actually one of the first to be accused, and whose existence at all has been relegated to little more than a footnote among records from the time.
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