
Slavery in the Northern Colonies
Lectures in History
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What's the Story of the Salem Witch Trials?
Tichiba who was the enslaved, that's okay, that was very close. The actual text of the trial says Tichiba was an indigenous woman. She was even married to a man who was known as John Indian. There were enslaved people of African descent who were pulled into the Salem witch trials. They were brought before the community and bound up in these trials. Interestingly enough though, they were not put to death. In fact, Tichiba basically was like, yeah, I'm a witch, they threw her in prison and then she survived the trials. And that is actually a way that some people did survive the trials by just admitting, right? Sure, you're right
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