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Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies

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ISBN-10: 0814713076

ISBN-13: 9780814713075

Edition: 1997

Authors: Elaine G. Breslaw

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A fascinating theory about the origins of the witch hunt that is sure to influence future historians. . . . a valuable probe of how myths can feed hysteria.--The Washington Post Book World"An imaginative reconstruction of what might have been Tituba's past."--Times Literary Supplement"A fine example of readable scholarship."--Baltimore SunIn this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller'sThe Crucible.Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious Salem witch trials, the book follows Tituba from her likely…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Elaine G. Breslaw retired as Professor of History from Morgan State University in Baltimore after 29 years and has taught on an adjunct basis at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (NYU Press, 1995), Witches of the Atlantic World: An Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook (NYU Press, 2000), and Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture.