Moi, Tituba sorcière.... Noire de Salem

The daughter of Abena, a slave who was raped by an English sailor aboard a slave ship, Tituba—born in Barbados—was introduced to supernatural powers by Man Yaya, a healer and sorceress. Her marriage to John Indien took her to Boston, then to the village of Salem, where she served Pastor Parris. It was amid the hysterical atmosphere of this small Puritan community that the famous Salem witch trials took place in 1692. Tituba is arrested and forgotten in her prison cell until a general amnesty is granted two years later. That is where the story ends. Maryse Condé rehabilitates her, rescues her from the oblivion to which she had been condemned, and, finally, brings her back to her native land, Barbados, to the time of the Maroons and the first slave revolts.