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imagined they would come from the lips of someone so dear to me? (77). When Tituba is in jail, she become conscious of her hidden strength in herself to survive and return to Barbados. Tituba discovers that the Puritans in Boston are very self-righteous. They believe that everyone should follow their religion in Boston and if you do not they force you out. The Puritans believe that if your different, you are damned and for all their belief in God their punishments are very severe. The Puritans were not only at odds with blacks, but also with Jews. Tituba learned of the hardships of the Jews through Benjamin Cohen d?Azevedo when he was her master. Benjamin was accepting of Tituba and Tituba was tolerant of Benjamin. The Puritans did not feel this way. ?What are those who govern us

thinking of? Did we leave England for this? To see Jews and niggers multiply in our midst? (132)? Those were the opinions the Puritans felt towards people who were diverse. The third stage of Tituba?s journey brings her back to Barbados. In Barbados, Tituba discovers the happiness and peace that she was always looking for. She gets involved with a rebellion to free Barbados from the Whites. It is a unsuccessful revolt against the Whites that results in her death and everyone that was involved, but in the afterlife she finds what she has been looking for. Tituba sees everything around her now and knows that Barbados will become free in its own time. Tituba says, ?Yes, I?m happy now. I can understand the past, read the present, and look into the future. Now I know why there is so

much suffering?But I know, too, that there will be an end to all this? (178). The society that Tituba finds in Barbados in still one of corruption and the Whites are still in control. Tituba tries to change that before she realizes that it will happen at its own time. In conclusion, Maryse Conde?s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem presents Tituba?s journey from Barbados to Boston and back to Barbados. Tituba discovers the power of healing and magic. Tituba also realizes that when it comes to love, she will always follow her heart instead of her head. She also realizes that she cannot always trust the person closest to her, which does not stop her from continuing to be the caring and compassionate person that she was. Tituba finds the happiness that she was looking for in her death.