Over a decade later, Tituba was one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft during the hysteria of 1692. In November of 1689, Samuel Parris moved Tituba and his family to Salem after he was appointed the new minister of Salem Village. Parris, or an associate, later purchased her in Barbados when she was a teenager and brought her to Boston in 1680. Not much is known about Tituba’s life except that she was born in an Arawak Village in South America where she was captured during her childhood and taken to Barbados as a slave. The various documents and books about the Salem Witch Trials over the years often refer to Tituba as black or mixed race but the actual court documents from her trial refer to her as an “Indian woman, servant.” Tituba’s Early Life: Tituba was a slave who worked for Samuel Parris during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
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