Refimprove date March 2011 Tituba was a 17th century Slavery slave belonging to Samuel Parris of Salem, Massachusetts ref http www.britannica.com bps additionalcontent 18 35443327 Telling Tales Tituba and the Salem Witch Trials Telling Tales Tituba and the Salem Witch Trials , Britannica.com ref . Tituba ... which took place in 1692. Tituba was the third person accused by Betty Parris and Abigail Williams ... the other two women, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne . ref Breslaw, Elaine G. Tituba, Reluctant ... witchcraft trials. Not only did Tituba accuse others in her confession, but she talked about black dogs, hogs, a yellow bird, red and black rats, cats, and a wolf. Tituba talked about riding sticks to different places. Tituba confessed that Sarah Osborne possessed a creature with the head of a woman ... Village into chaos by hinting that Satan was among them. ref Breslaw. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem ..., Tituba was never tried or executed for her role in the witchcraft trials. She was later released from ... not have been done out of any compassion for Tituba or real belief in her claims, but rather ... at Salem. ref Historical debate The ethnicity of Tituba has been surrounded by controversy from the first ... Reluctant Breslaw, Elaine G. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies . New York New York University Press, 1996. ref But over time the origins of Tituba have begun to be re evaluated and old theories have been contested. In Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem , Elaine G. Breslaw writes blockquote according to local legend, Tituba and her husband, John, were spoken of as having ... Breslaw believes that Tituba was an Arawaks Arawak Native from Guiana who was either kidnapped and then brought ... We may never know where Tituba was really from. Since there was no clear distinction by the Puritans ... Tituba s origin. This however is not the only reason for the scholarly debate over the identity of Tituba. Hansen states blockquote Over the years the magic Tituba practiced has been changed by historians ... more details
Orphan date September 2010 infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Tituba of Salem Village title orig translator image image caption author Ann Petry illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series genre African American Literature publisher Houghton Mifflin Company release date 1955 english release date media type Print Hardcover and Paperback pages 272 pp isbn ISBN 978 0064404037 Paperback oclc 24857720 preceded by followed by Tituba of Salem Village is an African American children s novel by Ann Petry . See also portal Novels The Street Tituba wikiquote DEFAULTSORT Tituba Of Salem Village Category Novels by Ann Petry Category 1955 novels Category American children s novels 1950s novel stub ... more details
, had not hurt the children, and were innocent but the surprising thing is that Tituba admitted ... on broomsticks accompanied by familiar spirits and did all sorts of injury. Tituba confessed to seeing the devil who appeared to her sometimes like a hog and sometimes like a great dog . In addition, Tituba ... more details
BLP IMDB refimprove date April 2010 Charlaine Charlayne Woodard born December 29, 1953 is an United States American film, theatre stage and television actress and playwright . She has written three plays, titled Pretty Fire , Neat , and In Real Life , all of which she starred in. She portrayed the recurring role of List of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air characters Janice Smith Janice on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air . She played the role of Vonda on Roseanne , and also appears in a recurring role as Sister Peg on Law & Order SVU , a nun who looks out for the safety of prostitutes and junkies and occasionally helps the SVU detectives. Her film credits include the role of Tituba in The Crucible 1996 film The Crucible , alongside Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder , Elijah s mother in Unbreakable film Unbreakable alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis , and Angel Kosinsky in Eye for an Eye film Eye for an Eye , alongside Sally Field . She was one of the original cast members in the Tony Award winning Broadway musical Ain t Misbehavin musical Ain t Misbehavin , and in 2009, starred in a one person performance called The Night Watcher at Primary Stages in New York City. Woodard has been married to Alan Harris, an intellectual property lawyer, since 1991. Selected filmography Hair film Hair 1979 as White Boys The Crucible 1996 film The Crucible 1996 as Tituba Unbreakable film Unbreakable 2000 as Elijah s Mother Sunshine State film Sunshine State 2002 as Loretta Lackawanna Blues 2005 as Bill s Woman External links IMDB name id 0940128 name Charlayne Woodard http www.ibdb.com person.asp?ID 65558 IBDB Profile http www.charlaynewoodard.com Charlayne Woodard s Official Website http www.charlaynewoodard.com portfolio.html Charlayne Woodard s Acting Reel DEFAULTSORT Woodard, Charlayne Category 1953 births Category Living people Category African American actors Category People from Albany, New York US screen actor stub fr Charlayne Woodard ... more details
Betty Parris , and her cousin Abigail Williams , accused the family s slave Tituba of witchcraft ... Tituba and compelled her to confess that she was a witch. The hysteria lasted sixteen months, concluding ... Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry, another work of fiction relating to the witch trials. References ... more details
townspeople Tituba, Sarah Osborne, and Sarah Good Hill, 1995 . On March 1, 1692, Good was tried for witchcraft ... against them, Tituba admitted to being the Devil s servant. She stated that a tall man dressed ..., Tituba said, she eventually wrote her name, after Good and Osborne forced her to. There were 6 other names in the book as well but Tituba said, they were not visible to her. She also said that Good ... sent these animals to harm the girls. When the girls began to have another fit, Tituba claimed she ... her innocence, proclaiming Tituba and Osborne as the real witches. In the end, however, Sarah Good was convicted ... more details
Infobox nrhp name Salem Village Historic District nrhp type nhld image Salem Village Parsonage Foundation.jpg caption Archeological site of the Salem Village Parsonage, where in 1692 the witchcraft hysteria began when a slave from the Caribbean named Tituba spread tales about witchcraft to the Puritans. location Danvers, Massachusetts lat degrees 42 lat minutes 34 lat seconds 0 lat direction N long degrees 70 long minutes 57 long seconds 38 long direction W locmapin Massachusetts area built 1681 architect Mudge,Josiah, et al. architecture Greek Revival, Colonial, Federal added January 31, 1975 governing body Local refnum 75000252 ref name nris NRISref 2008a ref Salem Village Historic District is a historic district in an irregular pattern along Centre, Hobart, Ingersoll, and Collins Streets, as far north as Brentwood Circle, and south to Mello Parkway in Danvers, Massachusetts . The area was settled around 1681. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. References reflist Registered Historic Places Category Historic districts in Massachusetts Category Historic districts in Essex County, Massachusetts EssexMA NRHP stub ... more details
Image Maryse oulette.jpg thumb Maryse Cond in 2008. Maryse Cond born 1937 is a Guadeloupe an, French language author of historical fiction , best known for her novel Segu 1984 1985 . Maryse Cond was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe Pitre , Guadeloupe , the youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lyc e F nelon and University of Paris Sorbonne in Paris , where she majored in English language English . In 1959, she married Mamadou Cond , a Guinea n actor. After graduating, she taught in Guinea , Ghana and Senegal . In 1981, she divorced, but the following year married Richard Philcox, English language translator of most of her novels. In addition to her writings, Cond had a distinguished academic career. In 2004 she retired from Columbia University as Professor Emerita of French. She had previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley , UCLA , the Sorbonne , The University of Virginia , and the University of Nanterre . Literary significance Cond s novels explore Race classification of human beings racial , gender and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales, including the Salem witch trial s in I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem 1992 and the 19th century Bambara Empire of Mali in Segu 1987 . Her novels trace the relationships between African peoples and the diaspora, especially the Caribbean. She has taken considerable distance from most Caribbean literary movements, such as Negritude and Creolit , and has often focused on topics with strong feminist concerns. Her recent writings have become increasingly autobiographical, such as Memories of My Childhood and Victoire, a biography of her grandmother. Who Slashed Celinaire s Throat also shows traces of her paternal great grandmother. Bibliography Heremakhonon 1976 I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem 1986 Segu novel Segu 1987 A Season in Rihata 1988 The Children of Segu 1989 An Tan Revolysion Play, 1989 Tree of Life 1992 Crossing the Mangrove 1995 The Last of the ... more details
, Abigail claims that Tituba was working with the devil . After a brutal whipping, Tituba confesses ... col break Charlayne Woodard as Tituba Rachael Bella as Betty Parris Frances Conroy as Ann Putnam Ashley ... more details
Good and preceding Tituba. Although Osborne denied all the accusations against her, it was to no avail ... and later Tituba would claim that the three of them were indeed working with the Devil . ref Upham ..., Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Sarah Osbourne , Sarah Good , Tituba . The Salem Witchcraft Papers , Vol ... more details
Nisma Cherrat born 1969 in Casablanca , Morocco is an Afro German actress . She grew up in the Schwarzwald region in Germany ref http www.unrast verlag.de unrast,5,1,446.html Publisher Biography in German ref and attended 1989 to 1992 the Neue M nchner Schauspielschule . She studied classical singing 1993 to 1995 with Bennie Gillette in Munich and at the Jazzschool M nchen . Nisma Cherrat is a founding member of the SFD Schwarze Filmschaffende in Deutschland Black Artists in German Film association. Film and TV work Warten auf Gott Series 1992 ARD Spieglein 2000 Filmhochschule K ln Tal der Ahnungslosen von Branwen Okpako 2003 ZDF Theatre work selection Skins als Gloria 1992 Kampnagel Kulturfabrik Mephisto als Juliette 1995 Landesb hnen Sachsen Diener zweier Herren als Smeraldina 1995 Landesb hnen Sachsen Hexenjagd als Tituba 1995 Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern Hechinger als Mpenzi 1997 Thalia Theater Hamburg Die Blume von Hawaii als Raka 2000 Staatsschauspiel Dresden Tartuffe als Dorin 2001 See Burgtheater Schweiz Der Streit als Carise 2002 Stadttheater Bielefeld Hysterikon als M dchen mit Impuls 2003 Theater Kosmos, Bregenz I have a dream als Coretta King 2004 Tourneetheater Kempf Mephisto als Juliette 2006 Theater Hof Publikation M tresse Wahnsinnige Hure Schwarze SchauspielerInnen am deutschsprachigen Theater in Mythen, Masken und Subjekte Kritische Wei seinsforschung in Deutschland 2006, Unrast Verlag ref http www.unrast verlag.de unrast,2,222,13.html Unrast Verlag ref ISBN 978 3897714403 References references External links imdb name id 1441078 name Nisma Cherrat http www.liniepur.de nismacherrat vitan.html Biography in German Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cherrat, Nisma ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1969 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Cherrat, Nisma Category German television actors Category German film actors Category Living people Category 1969 births de Nisma Cherrat ... more details
Infobox Film name Maid of Salem image Maid of Salem poster.jpg caption Theatrical poster director Frank Lloyd producer Frank Lloyd writer Walter Ferris br Durward Grimstead br Bradley King also story starring Claudette Colbert br Fred MacMurray music Victor Young cinematography Leo Tover editing Hugh Bennett director Hugh Bennett studio Paramount Pictures distributor Paramount Pictures released 3 March 1937 runtime 85 min country USA awards language English budget preceded by followed by Maid of Salem is a 1937 in film 1937 film made by Paramount Pictures , directed by Frank Lloyd , and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray . Plot It tells the story of a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts , 1692, who has an affair with adventurer. She is sentenced as a witch, but saved by him. Cast Claudette Colbert as Barbara Clarke Fred MacMurray as Roger Coverman Harvey Stephens actor born 1901 Harvey Stephens as Dr. John Harding Gale Sondergaard as Martha Harding Louise Dresser as Ellen Clarke Benny Bartlett as Timothy Clarke Edward Ellis actor Edward Ellis as Elder Goode Beulah Bondi as Abigail Goode Bonita Granville as Ann Goode Virginia Weidler as Nabby Goode Donald Meek as Ezra Cheeves E.E. Clive as Bilge Halliwell Hobbes as Jeremiah Pedro de Cordoba as Mr. Morse Madame Sul Te Wan as Tituba External links tcmdb title id 82414 title Maid of Salem imdb title 0029190 Maid of Salem Amg movie 100965 Maid of Salem Frank Lloyd DEFAULTSORT Maid Of Salem Category 1937 films Category Paramount films Category American films Category Black and white films Category Films directed by Frank Lloyd Category 1930s drama films Category Films set in Massachusetts Category Films set in the 17th century 1930s drama film stub ca Maid of Salem fr Le D mon sur la ville pt Maid of Salem ru ... more details
to say who caused her odd behavior, Elizabeth Parris identifies Tituba. The girls later accuse ... issue warrants to arrest Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba for afflicting Betty Parris, Abigail ... Corwin interrogate Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba over the course of several days. Tituba ... more details
for the American botanical artist Mary Vaux Walcott Mary Walcott July 5 , 1675 &ndash after 1719 was one of the witnesses at the Salem Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts in the years 1692 and 1693. Image WalcottBurroughs.jpg thumb right Deposition of Mary Walcott, August 3, 1692 She was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Walcott 1639 1699 , and his wife Mary Sibley 1644 1683 , both of Salem, and was about seventeen years old when the allegations started in 1692. Her aunt, Mary Woodrow, the wife of Samuel Sibley 1657 1708 , was the person who first showed Tituba and her husband John Indian how to bake a witch cake to feed to a dog in order that she and her friends might ascertain exactly who it was that was afflicting them. Joseph B. Felt quotes in the The Annals of Salem 1849 edition vol. 2, p. 476 from the town records blockquote March 11, 1692 &ndash Mary, the wife of Samuel Sibley, having been suspended from communion with the church there, for the advices she gave John husband of Tituba to make the above experiment, is restored on confession that her purpose was innocent. blockquote At the trials, she was said to be calm, but subsequently critics have accused her of everything from compromise to actually being a witch who foiled her potential adversaries by distracting their attention away from herself onto innocent persons Citation needed date February 2007 . She married Isaac Farrar on April 29, 1696. Isaac was the son of John Farrar of Woburn, Massachusetts . They had several children, and eventually moved to Townsend town , Massachusetts Townsend , Massachusetts . Mary Walcott also married David Harwood in 1701 in Sutton, Massachusetts . They had nine children. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560 1900 Record Name Mary Walcott Gender female Birth Place MA Birth Year 1675 Spouse Name David Harwood Marriage Year 1701 Number Pages 1 Portrayals Mary Walcott appeared as May Walcott in the television film Salem Witch Trials , portrayed by Canadian ac ... more details
Multiple issues orphan February 2009 notability March 2008 primarysources March 2008 Daniels Holderby Cort se , stage name Daria Cort se born 16 February 1982 in Trenton, New Jersey is an United States of America American full lyric soprano . Cort se holds BM and MM degrees from Westminster Choir College , where she was for four years a member of the Westminster Choir under Joseph Flummerfelt. While at Westminster she was elected to Alpha Lambda Delta the national first year academic honors society , Omicron Delta Kappa the national leadership honorary and Pi Kappa Lambda the national musician s honor fraternity . Additionally, she is an accomplished harpist . Ms. C rtese specializes in both the Baroque coloratura repertoire of George Frideric Handel Handel and Antonio Vivaldi Vivaldi and opera roles such as Mimi in Giacomo Puccini s La boh me , the Countess in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart s The Marriage of Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro , and the title character in Anton n Dvo k Dvo k s Rusalka . C rtese is also a champion of Russian art song , often programming works by Rachmaninoff , Borodin , and Tchaikovsky on her recitals. Cort se is a frequent soloist at the Newtown Handel Festival in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Newtown, Pennsylvania , where she has been heard in George Frideric Handel Handel s Dixit Dominus and Messiah , Joseph Haydn Haydn s Creation , Mozart s Requiem Mozart Requiem , and Haydn s Missa in Angustiis Lord Nelson Mass . During the 2006 07 season, Cort se was seen as Wellgunde G tterd mmerung and Tituba The Crucible in scenes programs at Westminster Choir College . She was also heard as the soprano soloist in Haydn s Lord Nelson Mass with the Westminster Symphonic Choir. In July 2007 she was heard as Lady Billows in Benjamin Britten s Albert Herring at the Intermezzo Opera Festival, where she also covered the role of Alice Ford in Giuseppe Verdi s Falstaff opera Falstaff . Cort se also maintains an active teaching career. She currently h ... more details
Jonathan Corwin December 10, 1640 June 9, 1718 was a wealthy New England merchant , and a judge in the Salem, Massachusetts area who was involved in the Salem Witch Trials . He married Elizabeth Gibbs , widow of Robert Gibbs, in 1675 and had ten children. One of them was George Corwin who after his studies at Harvard became minister Christianity minister at the First Church in Salem . Corwin served as a representative for Salem in the Massachusetts legislature. He was also appointed to the Superior Court of Massachusetts. Salem witchcraft trials involvement As a magistrate , Jonathan Corwin dealt with petty crimes and minor charges such as drunkenness and burglary. He was called to investigate the widespread accusations of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and was appointed to be a judge on the Oyer and terminer Court of Oyer and Terminer after another judge Nathaniel Saltonstall had resigned in protest over the first hanging, the verdict of which had been based on so called spectral evidence. Spectral evidence was judged to be a legitimate means of identifying a witch as many people believed that the Devil could not assume an innocent person s shape. Corwin signed several arrest warrants and transcribed a few of the hearings but scarcity of records from the 1692 events makes it impossible to determine Judge Corwin s overall import in the trials as well as his attitude towards spectral evidence. The court of Oyer and Terminer, established by Sir William Phipps , convicted nineteen of witchcraft and sentenced them to the gallows. Notable events March 1, 1692 Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne examined Tituba , Sarah Good , and Sarah Osborne . May 27, 1692 Gov. Phips establishes a Court of Oyer and Terminer to investigate the allegations of witchcraft. Lieutenant Gov. William Stoughton dn , Nathaniel Saltonstall , Bartholomew Gedney , Peter Sergeant , Samuel Sewall , Wait Still Winthrop , John Richards dn , John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin are its members. ref http www ... more details
. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem 1992 , translated from the original French Moi, Tituba, sorci re noire de Salem 1986 , by Maryse Cond , Cond freely imagines Tituba s childhood and old age, endows ... grows up during the witch trials. Many real people, including Tituba, make appearances. The Salem ... Weidler , and Madame Sul Te Wan as Tituba , directed by Frank Lloyd I Married a Witch 1942 .... 463 Image TitubaandtheChildren Fredericks.jpg Tituba and the Children , by illustrator Alfred Fredericks ... Wadsworth Longfellow , Boston, Houghton, 1902 Image Tituba Longfellow Corey.jpg Tituba , illustration ... Image Tituba MaryWalcott Longfellow.jpg Tituba and Mary Walcott , illustration by John W. Ehninger, to accompany ..., Boston, 1892 . Image TitubaTeachingTheFirstActofWitchcraft.png Tituba Teaching the First Act ... more details
, were engaged in occultist activities in a nearby forest, apparently led by Tituba , Parris ... phenomena and is eager to use his acquired learning. He questions Abigail, who accuses Tituba of being a witch. Tituba, afraid of being hanged and threatened with beating, professes faith in God ... and he owned the slave, Tituba, who was the first to be accused of witchcraft and who survived prison. Supporting. 260 lines ref www.stageagent.com ref TitubaTituba is Rev. Parris slave. Parris seems ... an affair with her husband, John Proctor. Abigail and her uncle s slave, Tituba, lead the local girls ... more details
. In 1937, Sul Te Wan was cast in the memorable role of Tituba in the film Maid of Salem , a dramatic ... Credited as Madame Sultewan Maid of Salem Tituba rowspan 4 1938 Island in the Sky 1938 film Island ... more details
Infobox actor name Claudia McNeil image caption birthdate August 13, 1917 birthplace Baltimore, Maryland deathdate November 25, 1993 deathplace Englewood, New Jersey Claudia McNeil August 13, 1917 November 25, 1993 was an American actress known for premiering the role of matriarch Lena Younger in both the stage and screen productions of A Raisin in the Sun . She later appeared in a 1981 production of the musical version of the play, Raisin musical Raisin presented by Equity Library Theater . She was twice nominated for a Tony Award , first for A Raisin in the Sun in 1959, and again for the play Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright in 1962. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the screen version of A Raisin in the Sun in 1961. Life and career McNeil was born in Baltimore , to Marvin Spencer McNeil, an African American , and Annie Mae Anderson McNeil, an Apache Indian . ref name balt http articles.baltimoresun.com 1993 12 01 news 1993335082 1 claudia mcneil poitier adoptive parents ref The family moved to New York City soon after her birth. She was raised by her mother after her father left the family. At the age of twelve, McNeil began working for the The Heckscher Foundation for Children . There she met a Jewish couple who later adopted her, ref name balt and McNeil became fluent in Yiddish . She became a licensed librarian , but soon began singing in vaudeville theaters, and performing in nightclubs in Harlem , Greenwich Village and on 52nd Street . McNeil also sang for the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe on its South American tour. She was advised by Ethel Waters to begin acting, and made her New York stage debut in 1953, playing Tituba in The Crucible at the Martin Beck Theater . Four years later, Langston Hughes chose her to sing in his musical play Simply Heavenly . She won critical acclaim for this role. In 1961, she was featured in A Raisin in the Sun and became so identified with the part of the matriarch that she said, There was a time when I acted the ... more details
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