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Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem : Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies.

In 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's The Crucible . Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Breslaw, Elaine G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 1995.
Colección:American social experience series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Barbados; CHAPTER ONE Tituba's Roots: An Arawak from Guiana; CHAPTER TWO My Own Country: Tituba in Barbados; CHAPTER THREE Strange New World: An American Indian on a Barbados Plantation; PART II Massachusetts; CHAPTER FOUR An Incomplete Transformation: A Tawny Puritan; CHAPTER FIVE The Devil in Massachusetts: Accusations; CHAPTER SIX The Reluctant Witch: Fueling Puritan Fantasies; CHAPTER SEVEN Creative Adaptations: Complaints and Confessions. 
505 8 |a CHAPTER EIGHT Devilish Indians and Womanly Conversations: Tituba's CredibilityEPILOGUE: Altered Lives; APPENDIX A: Timetable of Accusations and Confessions, February-November 1692; APPENDIX B: Chronological List of 53 Confessions, 1692; APPENDIX C: Transcripts of Tituba's Confessions; Abbreviations; Notes; Index. 
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