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This book imagines the complete life of Tituba, the real life slave and historical figure who was one of the first people to be accused of witchcraft during the notorious Salem witch trials of 1692. The author imagines Tituba's life in novelistic form, and the character of Tituba provides a first-person account of her life in the book. 

Tituba begins her story by describing her conception, aboard a slave ship heading to Barbados, when her...

This book imagines the complete life of Tituba, the real life slave and historical figure who was one of the first people to be accused of witchcraft during the notorious Salem witch trials of 1692. The author imagines Tituba's life in novelistic form, and the character of Tituba provides a first-person account of her life in the book. 

Tituba begins her story by describing her conception, aboard a slave ship heading to Barbados, when her mother, an Ashanti woman named Abena, is raped by an English sailor. Abena is later hanged when she rejects the amorous intentions of her white owner, and Tituba, then seven years old, is raised by a woman named Mama Yaya, a healer. After Mama Yaya dies, Tituba moves to the plantation of a vindictive white woman named Susanna Endicott, whose skin is "the color of curdled milk" (page 24). Tituba's intention is to be with a slave named John Indian, who she marries. For trying to use herbs to sicken Endicott, Tituba is sent with John Indian to Salem, Massachusetts, as the property of Reverend Samuel Parris.

In Salem Village, Tituba is treated with disdain by the Puritans and is later accused of witchcraft by several local girls and is jailed. John Indian leaves her when she is jailed. Tituba meets Hester Prynne, the fictional heroine of The Scarlet Letter, in jail. Benjamin Cohen D'Azevedo, a Jewish man who has lost his wife and some of his children to whooping cough, rescues Tituba. He needs her to take care of his nine surviving children, and Tituba has a relationship with Cohen. They are both isolated and suffer rejection from the society around them for their religious and cultural backgrounds.

After his children die in a fire, Cohen leaves for Rhode Island, where he can practice his religion freely. He frees Tituba, who returns to Barbados, where she tends to the wounds of rebels named Maroons. Later, with a local boy she has adopted named Iphigene, she takes part in a slave uprising for which she is executed. As a spirit, she joins her mother and Mama Yaya and hopes for freedom for slaves.