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.
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Key facts
- Person.caption
- Illustration of Tituba by John W. Ehninger, 1902
- Person.other_names
- Tattuba (possibly)
- Person.known_for
- Accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials
- Person.criminal_charge
- Witchcraft
- Person.spouse
- John Indian
- Person.criminal_penalty
- None (held for trial for over a year but never convicted)
- Person.criminal_status
- Case dismissed
- Person.occupation
- Slave, possibly a cook
- Person.name
- Tituba
- Person.image
- Tituba-Longfellow-Corey (cropped).jpg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Place of death
- Boston
- Occupation
- slave
- Image
- Tituba-Longfellow-Corey (cropped).jpg
- Convicted of
- witchcraft
- Significant event
- Salem Witch Trials
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- social classification
- slave
- date of birth
- 1659-00-00
- Commons category
- Tituba
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikiproject Witches
- penalty
- imprisonment
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Salem witch trials
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
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.
She was enslaved by Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. She was pivotal in the trials because she confessed to witchcraft when examined by the authorities, giving credence to the accusations. She accused two other women, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, of the same crime. She was imprisoned for over a year but never tried. What happened to her after a grand jury dismissed the case against her in May 1693 is unknown.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tituba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.