So you’re telling me the first person burned in the Salem witch trials was a Caribbean woman who practiced Obeah(?!!!!)
@mayowasworld @Cap_Groove yes but it's unclear as to whether or not tituba was black
@mayowasworld This might be the character Tituba from The Crucible who was a Bajan slave owned by one of the main families in the story Maryse Conde wrote a book called I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem telling her story from her pov
@mayowasworld Just to clarify: 1. Nobody was burned during the Salem witch crisis. 2. Tituba was not executed. 3. There's no evidence that Tituba practiced Obeah.
@mayowasworld Sometimes words are LITERAL “Black Magic” .. them Black women were doing magic assisting their men in hunting, war, healing etc. Them folks stole knowledge and rebranded our “magic” as what the truth about their religion looked like.
@mayowasworld Some sources say she was Black, others say she was Indo-Caribbean, and some say she was Native American but either way the first victim of the witch trial being a non-white woman doesn’t surprise me
@mayowasworld Anti-Blackness runs deep in the thread of this nation & world, chile! DEEP!
@mayowasworld Yeah but they don’t like to say it was bcuz of racism 👍🏾