Thursday, February 12, 2026

The residence of the slave Tituba

 


Tituba did not live in the building now called the Witch House. She lived in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris in Salem Village (now Danvers), during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, working as an enslaved woman and caregiver for Parris's family. 

Her residence was the modest Parris parsonage, a hub of the household where she cared for Parris's young daughter Betty and niece Abigail Williams, the first girls to report afflictions that led to the witchcraft accusations

Tituba was enslaved, then imprisoned, and she survived that imprisonment. Then apparently she was sold again once released and after that, she vanished from the pages of history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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