![]() I do not recall having read any prior novels set in Barbados and discovered an interesting world depicted through Conde’s writing. ![]() The island’s warmth and tropical setting come alive during a time period when to be Black was to be enslaved or to be part of the extralegal society of Maroons, runaways who had avoided or escaped enslavement. ![]() The novel both starts and ends on the Caribbean island of Barbados. In her novel, Conde paints a vibrant picture of the muted world of this society, which was nestled among the New England forests and where its members were anything but godly in their treatment of each other. ![]() The well-known Salem Witch Trials, during feverish months spanning 1692-1693, did in fact occur in Salem, but the puritanical town in which all the shenanigans occurred was actually about 5 miles away in the modern town of Danvers, Massachusetts, a fact I did not know prior to reading this novel. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem is set in two very different worlds: the puritanical Salem, Massachusetts, during its most infamous period in history, and the Caribbean island of Barbados. Literary Fiction * Historic Fiction * Caribbean Fiction * Books Set in Barbados * Books that Explore Gender and Racial Equality TRAVEL INSPIRATION: ![]() 227 pages, originally published in 1986 in French and translated to English in 1992 by Richard Philcox, who is both Conde’s long-term translator as well as her husband YOU MAY ENJOY THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE: ![]()
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