I am Taituba

In the records that preserved the events of the witch trials in the town of Salem in Massachusetts, the name that draws attention is a strange one: "Tituba," the black slave. Marise Kondi retells the story from the beginning, going back to before Tituba's birth, from the moment her mother was pregnant with her, aboard the ship that transported her to be sold with the slaves in Barbados; tracing her life path where faces, times, places, geographies, and worlds intersect, and the living connect with the dead, and the spirit of the world flows, uniting humans, plants, and animals... and where only one word directs the compass of our heroine's journey in a world of chaos and cruelty: freedom! It is a unique human epic that earned the author, a daughter of the colonies, worldwide recognition for her excellence as a human and a writer. Listen now.