Tituba
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Tituba was an enslaved Indigenous American woman who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693.
Illustration of Tituba by John W. Ehninger, 1902
Tituba, as portrayed in the 19th century by artist Alfred Fredericks in W.C. Bryant's A Popular History of the United States
Salem witch trials
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirt
Tituba
…Tituba (c. 1692–1693) was an enslaved Indigenous American woman who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693. She was enslaved by Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. She was pivotal in the trials…
Fanciful representation of the Salem witch trials, lithograph from 1892
Two alleged witches being accused in the Salem witch trials, 1892 engraving
1688 portrait of Increase Mather by Joan van der Spriet
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