I, Tituba, black witch of Salem : a novel
Maryse Condé (Author), Richard Philcox (Translator), Angela Y. Davis, Ann Armstrong Scarboro
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 Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into an epic heroine who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her
Print Book, English, 2009
First paperback edition
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2009