Analyzing Tituba's The Salem Witch Trials

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One famous trial is about TItuba, she was a slave that lived in the Paris household. She was half African American and Native American, in both ways people she was different from other accusers (Currie 10). Tituba’s testimony stirred up more trouble (Magoon 11). At first she said that she had never hurt the girls’, but as questioning went on she began to change her story (Currie 12). She confessed to seeing the devil who appeared to her as a hog or a great dog (“The Salem Witch Trials 1692”). Numerous villagers thought that her west Indian ancestors had practiced voodoo, a Haitian religion (Magoon 10). Tituba’s testimony became very important, she said the devil promised her presents if she did what he wanted (Currie 13). She ended up being

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