Tituba of the Salem Witch Trials
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- This video looks at how a woman named Tituba played a pivotal role in the Salem Witch Trials, and her backstory. Tituba was an enslaved domestic worker in Salem Village and likely also Barbados. Some Historians say she had African ancestry, while others say she was of Arawak/Native ancestry, and others say both. In this video, I explain her heritage based on the reasoning found in the book Tituba Reluctant Witch of Salem.
⏰TIME STAMPS⏰
0:00-1:46 Intro
2:04-Background on Tituba
4:26-About the girls "afflicted by witchcraft"
10:05- Tituba's trial
14:11-Protector’s Ledge- site of the hanging
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📝Additional Notes📝
A couple of additional points I’d like to add that are missing from the video:
#1- From what I understand, Tituba’s testimony helped lead the judges to use spectral evidence (i.e. evidence based on actions of the accused person’s spirit) to find people guilty of practicing witchcraft.
#2- In addition to the factors mentioned in the video that put the people of Salem Village and Salem Town on edge, they were also anxious and ready to believe that the Devil was present because the Government was in a state of disarray since their Charter had recently been revoked by England.
#3- Tituba's name is also (and perhaps more accurately) pronounced "Tit-chu-buh".
📗 SOURCES📗
“An Indian Slave Woman Confesses to Witchcraft” www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/dis... (accessed November 25,2020)
Breslaw, Elaine G. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. New York: London, 1996. Pages 12,17,19, 118,125, 192 (really, you should just read the whole book)
Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice.“ Salem Witch Trials: Historical Sites & Locations”. History of Massachusetts Blog historyofmassachusetts.org/wh... (accessed November 25,2020)
Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice. “Tituba: The Slave of Salem” . History of Massachusetts Blog historyofmassachusetts.org/ti... (accessed November 25,2020)
Elder, Rosalyn. African American heritage in Massachusetts Exploring the Legacy People and Places of Significance. Boston. African American Heritage Massachusetts, 2016. Pages 381-383
“The 1692 Salem Witch Trials”. Salem Witch Museum. salemwitchmuseum.com/history-... (accessed November 25,2020)
Walker, Rachel. “Cotton Mather”. Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project salem.lib.virginia.edu/people/.... (accessed November 25,2020)
“Witch Trials and Salem: Then & Now - Informational Primer” Peabody Essex Museum
My professor had us watch this for class. Just wanted to pop in and say Jazz, you are a phenomenal storyteller. I want to work in interpretation for the national parks, and I took a lot of inspiration from your charisma and delivery here.
Thank you! That means a lot. That's great to hear you're interested in interpretation for the national parks-- I love visiting the parks, and great story tellers there really bring them to life. Good luck on your journey😃
She was from Guyana 🇬🇾 and they took her from guyana into Barbados 🇧🇧 even the tribes of guyana know about her and by the way it means auntie and it's not her actual name
Unobscured podcast goes in depth of her history it's a good listen
Thanks for the video. I descend from 30 different people accused in Salem. Some of them being Elizabeth Howe, Martha Carrier, the Dane Family, and the Toothaker Family. I’ve been doing extensive research on this ancestry for years and have found so many things to be different from what we were taught in schools. The main one I noticed here is that you did mention that Tituba was most likely not from Africa, but a native. Thanks for doing the research to speak on matters of truth ❤.
That was the main part she should’ve stated because that’s what they try to hide but we our awakening!
Wow, @tarynmccain thanks for sharing your family connection to the witch trials. I hope the research you're uncovering gives you comfort.
You might want to look up the possible effect the mold, ergot, found in rye bread (which the inhabitants of Salem ate) had on the people of Salem.
Debunked by the history channel
I absolutely loved this, thanks for dismantling all the "evidence" that they had used at the time, and also providing a background and setting to what life was like in Salem Town and Village. It does come into play with why these paranoid people were so suspish. Will be referencing this on my midterm...it was really well done and put together.
I'm glad to hear the video was helpful! Good luck on the midterm 🤞🏾
You have to dig and dig and dig even more to start finding the real history.
True true. And also hope that you do not end up deep in a rabbit hole, and forget what you were researching to begin with!
do you know what happened?
Very interesting little documentary! Thank you for sharing parts of the Salem village for those of us who haven't had an opportunity (or are too scared) to visit the place. It helped bring the story to life for us.
Yay! I am glad you enjoyed it. It was a Salem Village was definitely a little spooky
I’m so glad I found your channel!
Jazzy, so good to discover you. Great job on one of my favorite subjects The Salem Witch Trials. Tituba has always been fascinating to me.
Tituba was from Barbados. Rev. Parris' father had owned a plantation down there and Rev, Parris brought Tituba (pronounced TIT uba) back to New England with him where she becmae a servant in his home.
How did she get to Massachusetts?
I know I live in different times, but the idea that one person can purchase another human like cattle just seems so crazy to me.
Thanks for doing all of this research it’s powerful.
I would love to come with you on your next adventure !!!
One day I hope to bring people on these adventures, post COVID!
Nicely researched and incredible presentation. You have quite some talent!
Thank you so much!
Great video! Thank you for this information
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome! Well researched and very well presented!
Thank you so much!
I am so entertained and gained much knowledge just by listening to youuuu. Thank you ❤
Yay, love to hear it 🙌🏾
Thanks, I enjoyed your video!
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
If Tituba was an Arawak from the Orinoco region then by definition she absolutely can't have been indigenous can she? She's no more indigenous to New England than the Puritans were.
Other than that excellent presentation. Its special that you tell the story at the site of the events. Brings the story to life.
Great video! ❤
Well done! Thank you.
I’m loving this keep it up
I'm working on it 😀
There’s a great novel called I, Tituba! It’s a historical fiction but it is so intriguing! Check it out for a fun read.
The book sounds fun! I need to read it sometime.
Really enjoyed the video, Awesome job!
I can't help but to try and find anything paranormal in the background while watching 😅
If you did, don't tell me. I don't need extra nightmares 🤣🤣
@@BlackGemsUnearthed I didn't see anything 🤣
this was great!!
Thank you!
Good job 👍🏽
She was bailed out of jail by an unknown person and never heard from again with no trail or death certificate… that’s extremely Interesting
Right?! I'm super curious about that part of the story and want to know more!
Excellent presentation.
thank you!
Hello, My name is Seth Szilagyi. I work at WBZ-TV in Boston. I really like your videos. Would you be interested in speaking with us about your mission of teaching black history in Massachusetts?
Good job
I enjoyed this video
Great episode, I love History, especially Black History. ✊🏿 keep up the good work.
Tituba was not black.
I enjoyed this story. However its not the real story. Tituba was a hero and a powerful woman, who made those who disrespected her ancestors, heritage and land pay for. She was their karma. The original story was they accused her of putting witch craft on the girls, so she did all of this to burn the whole town around where they started accusing one another and..well we know how it all went down. She then freed her own self and lived as a powerful wealthy women somewhere in the Caribbean (probably back to barbados)
Mary Black
I hope
They made the witch cake with pee after they started having panic attacks.. They got freaked out from the stories and fortune telling. Samuel Paris wasn't getting paid, he was not liked.
Really good telling of this story!
Amazing 😍 I'm in Salem now
I wish I knew this when my kids were in school. The mic drop effect would have been epic 😂
Story tiiiiime!
Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of
who were executed by hanging
Thank you for adding the clarification. In hindsight, I should have said 20 executed--19 hanged + 1 pressed to death (Giles Corey).
🙏🏾Bless Tituba having to go through that craziness
Big misconception is that black or human/hue man (color man) primarily come from from Africa but actually India, southern Asian (Guam, Malaysian, Cambodia, etc) indigenous people from carribean and southern natives of americas are phonetically the same, just different language and culture. Which explains why the Europeans made no distinction between them, dark skinned Indians and native Americans, moors etc. This also explains why certain practices such as the building of pyramids and herbal practices from voodoo (or Santeria in Puerto Rico or Native American version called hoodoo) made their way from Africa to southern and Carrbbian americas the same as the people over thousand of yrs earlier… its not surprising that tituba or onsimous (taught innoculation for smallpox, look him up) taught Europeans these practices just like they taught the pilgrims how to farm properly. If you look at pic of early southern Indians such as the gula gichie, they look no different than blacks
The Gullah Geechee ppl are Black as they were the descendants of West Africans. And everything does come from Africa, it’s not a misconception. Have you wondered why there are Asians that are as dark as Africans? Ppl are not dark simply bc they live closer to the equator. They share an ancestral trait that gives them the genetic diversity for different skin tone variations and that gene came from Africans.
@@peachjuice2730 yeah thanks for repeating what I said…I was speaking on the “misconception” being from the European mind, not from original black mind..I think I stated that but thanks for acknowledging
@@peachjuice2730 true 🙏
Black is simply a way that our society grouped dark skin in seperate classes. If possible look up 'Bacons Rebellion' for details that led up to the seperation of the indentured by cor, creating upper class with rights and privilege(white), and a lower class( black). 1681 this was in the works. 1705 was law 'An act concerning slaves and servants' Virginia encyclopedia. Much much more. Ironically the 'blacks' comprise many dark skinned races. Peace.
@@peachjuice2730 Not sll blavk people come from africa. Its 2023 people...
In his diary entry on Sept. 22, 1681, Increase Mather - father of the legendary clergyman Cotton Mather and later a president of Harvard College - wrote of “a negro woman who burnt 2 houses at Roxbury July 12.” The woman, Maria, described as a servant - often a euphemism for an enslaved person at the time ― of Joshua Lambe, was convicted of arson for using a hot coal to set fire to the house of a local doctor and Lambe’s home.
As punishment, Mather wrote, “the negro woman was burned to death.” He went on to explain that she was the first woman to suffer this fate in New England.
Thanks for sharing! I've heard about Maria in my readings too, yiikes.
@@BlackGemsUnearthed you’re welcome. The majority of women burned alive as witches were black American women. Maybe two WW were actually burned at the stake.
The real Tituba was amerindian (arawak or carib) not subsaharian, equal to Friday by Robinson Crusoe novel (in movies is always subsaharian)
Indeed, this seems to be the case from what I can tell. Thanks for the feedback!
if Tituba was arawak or carib she was a descendant of AFRICANS by way of Europe, many came here in 1600s as the TRUE Pilgrims, (not wht folks). The whts came as either convict , galley or orphan slaves.
@@thegrandcanyonisegypt2489 Plop!
@@thegrandcanyonisegypt2489 can you elaborate? I think what you're saying is that she is a descendant of Africans who came to America in the 1600s on their own (i.e. not enslaved by Europeans)? Would you have any recommendations on where to find more info in English about what you're sharing?
@@thegrandcanyonisegypt2489 Arawaks and Caribs are the same thinf and originated in the Orinocco river area in South America. Where did you get europe from?
Good job! I am a Salem tour guide.
Thank you! That means a lot coming from a tour guide :-)
No women or (men) were safe during this time. At least Tituba the West Indian servant survived. This history is fascinating and so sad.
I was told after she was released she wandered into the forest with John Indian
From my reading, Historians have not been able to trace where Tituba went after she was released. I would hope that she reunited with John and was able to live out the rest of her life in peace...but it's hard to say 🤷🏾♀️
Tituba was a brown-skinned Native American woman, NOT a black African.
I visited 2019
💜💜💜💜💜
Only thing to add... Her name is pronounced Tit-chu-buh.
Thank you for sharing! I have heard her name pronounced a few ways, I think I'll add a note about it in the video description since I did not mention the variations in the video itself.
Tituba....fascinating but sadly, lost to history after the trials. She was sold off to pay her jail debt and that is the last we know of her.. Yes, you had to pay for your stay in jail. Her name is pronounced "Tichuba" in the Salem/Danvers( where the origonal Salem village was located) area
"It's a witch cake, of course there's urine in it!" lmao!!
😁😁
DID the game or PLAYED the game? The symptoms can be ascribed to ergot poisoning . . .
She 100% Indian
No she's not. More than half, absolutely, but 100% absolutely not
I would love to share her actual story with you.
Can you share? I’ve been researching due to having recurring dreams about her…before I even knew she was a person. I have ancestors from Barbados, as well.
Hello, do you know why Tituba confessed to being a witch ?
Nope, we only have theories on why she may have confessed.
@@BlackGemsUnearthed is salem witches so scary please tell me i saw salem witches series is was scary very dark
interesting that many assume she was indigenous as opposed to black as her name "Tituba" is a Yoruban word meaning turn or to atone
Thank you the paranoia in this time
Why are they saying she was native american? She was from Barbados, and there were no north american indigenous people in Barbados. The people from Barbados are of African, Spanish, and Protugese decent, not native american decent. The Spaniards and Portugese were first documented as occupying that particular area as early as 350 AD. Tichiba was not a native american woman.
I thought she was born in Barbados
That’s understandable. From my reading, there is no definitive answer to where Tituba was born. The book “Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies” provides a several theories on where Tituba could have come from, including possibly being born in Barbados. The Author concludes that it’s likely that was from an Arawak tribe in northeastern South America, and enslaved and brought to Barbados. If you happen to grab the book, check out page 12.
She was most likely purchased in Barbados by the Parris family.
I think her name was not tituba. It's pronounced tichuba.
Tituba was a Yoruba (Nigerian) woman with Arawak heritage 💯
Nop was only arawak
@@laurolavanda1807 She was Black. Ever heard of “The Atlantic Slave Trade”? 🙄
@@Blasian-me9zo Indigenous people were also victims of the Atlantic Slave trade...for example, in Massachusetts, in the 1600s some were forcibly taken and traded in either Bermuda or Providence Island (I can't remember which at the moment).
It is highly likely that Tituba was an Arawak woman based on the time period she was thought to be born, and what was happening in South America and the Caribbean islands at the time. She may have adopted some parts of African culture as a result of Africans who lived along side her during her time in the Caribbean.
You can take a look at some of the theories around her identity and where she was from in the book Tituba Reluctant Witch of Salem. I was able to find the book in my local library, and it's also on Thrift Books for just $6.49 www.thriftbooks.com/w/tituba-reluctant-witch-of-salem-devilish-indians-and-puritan-fantasies-the-american-social-experience-series_elaine-g-breslaw/325772/item/32894186/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw8vqGBhC_ARIsADMSd1DyPNYEfwdWgALUOPcI46vcjN1j1hVWoR_3lCubK4qbMqrr8tbYWIcaAnZWEALw_wcB#idiq=32894186&edition=3758034
@@BlackGemsUnearthed They were not going through it as bad as African slaves though. Indigenous people had chattel slavery. Tituba was African with Arawak roots. Tituba derives from “Titi” (Yoruba Language).
@@Blasian-me9zo Ooh that's interesting about "Titi". Thanks for sharing. I read that her name may have come from a branch of Arawak people living in the area of the Amacuro river called Tetebetana. The name Tituba may be a Spanish derivative of that Arawak name. There were Arawak people taken from that area of the Amacuro river and brought to Barbados around the time that she would have been a child. Soo that's why I said she's probs Arawak. There's no way to definitively know though.
Guys I wear I’m bodyguard, I’m not sus
She’s saying her name wrong 😑
Hi! I've heard her name pronounced a couple of ways. Someone was kind enough to phonetically spell it in the comments (Tit-chu-buh), so I'll add it to the video description so folks know moving forward.
Tituba was not black.
Tituba wasn't a witch she was a woo lady
Witchcraft is real.
You're Beautiful 😍
Don't play with the devil.
The devil is real
Black ppl are the Indians it all makes sense
A lot of so called blacks been here. A lot of us did not come on boats.
He is the father of lies
Pretty sure Tituba was Garifuna... African/Arawak/Carib.
Voo Doo
A distant relative was one hung as a witch in Salem. . Moral of the story. Dont be a witch.
Really sounds like they were practicing witchcraft......so no biggie right 👍
Not real
🤔hmm, care to elaborate on what you mean?
@@BlackGemsUnearthed no because they don't have the receipts they only have hatred in their heart because black people are everywhere like you are the original people and the chosen so no one is going to explain anything to you about this matter or any other secrets about our people
Well you know a lot of witchcraft came from Africa
Yep 👍....... I've been twice, it's nice you should go.
Jesus Christ 🙏 is key as long as your not hungry for money
You do an awesome job! Thanks! My 8th great grandma was one of the convicted 'witches".
My wife’s ancestor was Rebecca Nourse (one of the women hanged) and my wife has the documentation showing the family tree from her to Rebecca Nourse.
Wow, it's amazing to be able to trace your family tree that far back, and I imagine challenging to hear that your relative was one of the people convicted ❤️
@@BlackGemsUnearthed It is if you can. I have African ancestry so for them I know little as well as on my Jewish and Irish sides. But the one English line is traceable to the 1100's there. You do a fabulous job doing history. More videos please!
That's witch craft