The Woman Who Knew Too Much to LiveTituba lived in a world where her voice was only heard when it was useful to her masters. As a servant in the household of Reverend Samuel Parris, she was invisible until the moment the village needed a scapegoat. When the Parris children began to scream and contort in ways the local doctors couldn't explain, the community didn't look for a medical cause—they looked for a dark skin tone to blame.The story of Tituba is the ultimate example of the powerless being used to fuel the fires of the powerful. To the Puritans, she was "other"—a vessel for the devil simply because she remembered the stories and healing traditions of her ancestors.A Choice Between the Noose and the LieTituba’s suffering was not just in the physical labor she performed, but in the psychological warfare of her existence. She had watched her own culture being erased by the whip and the Bible. When she was accused of witchcraft, she realized a terrifying truth: the only way to survive a system that wanted her dead was to feed its madness.The hatred she felt for her captors was a cold, calculated survival instinct. If they wanted a witch, she would give them a coven. Her famous "confession" was not a surrender, but a masterful manipulation of the white man's fear. She named names and told tales of black dogs and yellow birds, turning the village's paranoia against itself. She knew that as long as she was "confessing," she was too valuable to hang.But while the white women she named eventually found "justice," Tituba remained in chains. Even after the trials ended, she was left to rot in jail because her master refused to pay her fees. She was eventually sold to a new owner, a piece of property traded away after her "service" to the devil—and the law—was complete.