Yo, Tituba, la bruja negra de Salem

"Tituba and I lived in the closest intimacy for a year. During our conversations, he told me many things. He had never confessed them to anyone". Maryse Condé adopts the voice of Tituba, the black slave tried in the famous trials for witchcraft that took place, in the midst of a fever of mass hysteria, in the city of Salem, at the end of the 17th century. Daughter of the slave Abena, who was raped by an English sailor aboard a slave ship, Tituba was initiated into the art of the supernatural by Man Yaya, one of the most powerful healers on the island of Barbados. Unable to escape the influence of undesirable and low-moral men, Tituba becomes the property of a Satan-obsessed pastor, and will end up in the small Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts, where she will be tried and imprisoned, accused of having bewitched the village girls. Arrested, abandoned in prison, Maryse Condé rehabilitates her, tears her out of the oblivion to which she had been condemned and, finally, returns her to her native country at the time of the black maroons and the first slave revolts.