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lovegriefandgender 's review for:
The Witches: Salem, 1692
by Stacy Schiff
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
As thorough and devastating and exploration of misogyny as the book is, it has a huge failing when it comes to colonialism and racism.
Native Americans are referred to consistently as Indians, for example.
It's also acknowledged that Tituba did not speak English fluently, that she was a slave, and that her confession was extracted by several White middle class men all with their own agendas of property, money, revenge -- who elected in the end not to prosecute her. The fact that the thoroughness of her confession damned so many women is not a reflection on Tituba, blatantly I think, and there appears to be some bitterness in the way that she's written about.
Native Americans are referred to consistently as Indians, for example.
It's also acknowledged that Tituba did not speak English fluently, that she was a slave, and that her confession was extracted by several White middle class men all with their own agendas of property, money, revenge -- who elected in the end not to prosecute her. The fact that the thoroughness of her confession damned so many women is not a reflection on Tituba, blatantly I think, and there appears to be some bitterness in the way that she's written about.