Chapter 1-4 I, tituba Janelle Alleyne

while reading I, Tituba black witch of salem i found myself comparing it to The History of Mary Prince and how in the history of mary prince they masked any thing that dealt with  the sexual part of her life, like you had to read and dissect the reading to figure out the sexual aspect of her life. But in I tituba it starts out very open by showing the hardship of a female slave, with her mother being raped at 16 then being sold because her owner found that she was pregnant, then to her mom cutting the owner and being hanged because she wanted to protect Tituba from the slave owner. Also the way she described the master as this sex crazed person, in that scene, as he stripped and walked over to her. This stood out a lot to me because as a child that can be so traumatizing and as shes describing i can only imagine how shes feeling, like shes scared of what might happen to her, how will this moment affect and change her life. Then after this scene she kept repeating “they hanged my mother” to show that this was not only gonna show a turning point in her life but how cruel slavery was. All because her mother wanted to protect her from the master’s immoral behavior.

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