On March 1, 1692, Salem, Massachusetts, authorities interrogated Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and an Indian slave, Tituba, to determine if they indeed practiced witchcraft. So began the infamous ...

Women on the fringes of society, such as healers in Europe or the slave Tituba in Salem, were convenient scapegoats for ...

Right off the bat, Salem's terrains placed its inhabitants ... In a bid to save her skin, Tituba, the family's slave, testified to instances which strongly implied that the other two were ...