In the strict Puritan villages of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the late 1600s, people were uncomfortable around strangers and strange manners. The Puritans were concerned with the "evil eye", where a sudden illness or death of an animal was commonly misinterpreted as "the work of the devil". It was a place where no one different was trusted and Tituba was perhaps the most different of them all. Maryse Condé's novel, I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem, tells the story of a black woman born into a troubled life full of many challenges. Born to a mother who was a victim of rape, Tituba's life promises to be filled with tragic and unlucky events. She seemed doomed to unhappiness and sorrow due to her trials and tribulations of being an African-American woman. Tituba, as well as other female characters in this book, are continually pushed around because of their gender. Every time a woman tried to defend her human rights, she was punished in the most extreme way possible. Maryse Condé tackles and weaves together race, gender, religion, the idea of ​​America as a land of wealth, the idea of ​​victim guilt, revenge, sexuality and many other powerful motifs together in Tituba. Throughout Tituba's life, she encountered a lot of judgment from her own race which caused her some disadvantages. An example would be when Tituba lived alone after Mama Yaya's death, where all the other black slaves looked at her with disgust. She said, “when they saw me, everyone jumped into the grass” (11). The slaves thought that Tituba should work with them, because of the color of her skin. They didn't take into account what she had been through, they just saw the color of her skin. Additionally, Tituba felt discriminated...... middle of paper...... men who kept them in slavery and slept with them? (6). Almost every night, she had to lie on her back and make love to her husband where she "unleashed [her] fury and [their] moments of love were like a battle" (23), intentionally or not. She was stripped of her body and her feminine factors and, in her husband's eyes, became his sex slave. Every slave endured pain. Tituba unfortunately had to face various situations and encounters in Barbados. His beliefs were suppressed and people continued to try to change his way of thinking. She had to deal with racism within her own race as well as dislike from others. While going through these difficult times, she must not forget who she is and where she comes from. Her goals prove that she doesn't let anyone break the barrier that she, her mother, and Mama Yaya had so ardently sought to establish..