A Woman to Know: Tituba
The devil came to me and bid me serve him. — Tituba
The devil came to me and bid me serve him. — Tituba
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Arthur Miller immortalized her in his award-winning play, “The Crucible,” as a “Negro slave.” Her contemporaries called her a dark magic evangelist. Other historians marked her as a mere footnote, one of many players in the Salem Witch Trials.
But in 1692 — as today — people…
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