It is very horrific how the story started that Abena, Tituba’s mother, was raped by an English sailor and because of this horrendous act Tituba was born. After reading these first lines I started thinking that I will find more acts of sexual abuse showing how powerless slaves are, especially female slaves , because they are forced to do horrific things and if they don’t, they get punished or killed. Darnell, Abena’s owner, was groping for his penis and Abena defended herself with a cutlass managing to wound his shoulder. Abena was executed because she defended herself. This is how powerless they are because slaves cannot do anything to defend themselves unless they want to get punished or killed. Abena did not want to get raped again because she knew how it felt that is why she defended herself. Tituba saw her mother execution repeating “They hanged my mother” a moment that she won’t be able to forget and knowing that she had no power to save her. It is very frustrating knowing how slaves were treated and that not many had the courage to fight for their life because they were probably afraid of dying. If more slaves would had have the courage to fight for their life slaves owners would be at least a bit more scared.