Books like I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Tituba, born on Barbados to an enslaved mother, learns healing from an old woman of the island and is sold to a Puritan minister in Massachusetts, where she is among the first accused in the Salem trials.
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The Familiars
In 1612 Lancashire, seventeen-year-old Fleetwood Shuttleworth, pregnant again after miscarriages that nearly killed her, hires a midwife named Alice Gray just as the Pendle witch accusations begin.
The Mercies
In 1617, after a storm drowns nearly every man of a fishing village on the Norwegian island of Vardø, the women learn to fend for themselves, until a witch-hunter arrives with his young Scottish wife.
The Kingdom of This World
Ti Noël, an enslaved man in French Saint-Domingue, lives through the Haitian Revolution and the reign of King Henri Christophe, in a novel full of the marvellous real.
The Crucible
A 1953 play about the 1692 Salem witch trials, written in answer to the anti-Communist hearings of its day, in which a town lets a vengeful girl's accusations run its court.
The Invention of Wings
On her eleventh birthday in Charleston in 1803, Sarah Grimké is given ten-year-old Hetty 'Handful' Grimké as her maid, and over thirty-five years the two women, one who will become an abolitionist and one enslaved in her household, tell their parallel stories.
Weyward
In 2019 Kate flees an abusive partner for the cottage in Cumbria left to her by a great-aunt, and her story twines with those of Violet, a girl confined to her family's estate in 1942, and Altha, tried for witchcraft in 1619.
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
In the German duchy of Württemberg in the 1610s, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow and mother of the astronomer Johannes Kepler, is accused of witchcraft by a neighbour, and tells her side.
Cane River
Drawn from the author's own family, the lives of four generations of women of colour along the Cane River in Louisiana, from Elisabeth, born into slavery, to her great-granddaughter Emily, across a century.
James
Huckleberry Finn retold by Jim, an enslaved man who flees down the Mississippi when he learns he is about to be sold, and who hides his intelligence behind the dialect white people expect to hear.
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Clearing out her grandmother's abandoned house near Salem, a Harvard graduate student finds a key with a name on it, and the search for a lost 17th-century spellbook leads back to the witch trials.
Small Island
In 1948 Hortense, newly married, arrives in London from Jamaica to join her husband Gilbert, and they take a room in the house of Queenie, an Englishwoman whose own husband hasn't come back from the war.
The Confessions of Nat Turner
A fictionalised account of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, told from inside the mind of a literate, tormented preacher.