I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem is a French novel by Maryse Condé published in 1986. It won the French Grand Prix award for women's literature.
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Maroons
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Africans in the Americas and islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and lived in independent settlements, were referred to as maroons in English, and as c
I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem
…sailor. Tituba's mother is hanged after defending herself from the sexual advances of her white enslaver. Tituba is run off the plantation and becomes a maroon, having no enslaver, but not able to connect to society. She grows up living with an old spiritual herbalist named Mama Yaya, and learning about…
18th-century illustration of a Maroon
Maroons surprised by dogs (1893) (Brussels) by Louis Samain.
Maroons in Suriname in the 19th century
1801 aquatint of a Maroon raid on the Dromilly estate, Jamaica, during the Second Maroon War of 1795–1796.