{"id":13519,"date":"2017-04-05T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=13519"},"modified":"2017-04-05T00:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:29:23","slug":"tituba-black-witch-of-salem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13519","title":{"rendered":"Tituba, Black Witch of Salem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><em>after Maryse Cond\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tituba, the missing hollows of your story<br \/>\necho within myths and shifting details.<br \/>\nCenturies later, you are imagined whole.<br \/>\nYour name means \u201cto atone\u201d in Yoruba.<br \/>\nThe books say West Indian, Arawak,<br \/>\nVenezuelan, anything but African.<\/p>\n<p>The charges accused you of poisoning<br \/>\nchildren. Even though rye flour<br \/>\nbears unseen fungus spoiling bread,<br \/>\ncakes, and children. We will not know<br \/>\nthe count of lashes or blows, how often<br \/>\nyou were slapped or dunked before<br \/>\nyou said I am a witch. I serve the devil.<\/p>\n<p>We know this: you were the first<br \/>\nto confess. You walked away alive.<br \/>\nYou were bought from bondage, fled<br \/>\nSalem with John, birthed a daughter<br \/>\nnamed Violet. Papers prove all of that.<br \/>\nHistorians and scholars require some<br \/>\nbread crumbs, but these papers let you<br \/>\nimitate ether in the night and disappear.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13494\">Tara Betts<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after Maryse Cond\u00e9 Tituba, the missing hollows of your story echo within myths and shifting details. Centuries later, you are imagined whole. Your name means \u201cto atone\u201d in Yoruba. The books say West Indian, Arawak, Venezuelan, anything but African. The charges accused you of poisoning children. Even though rye flour bears unseen fungus spoiling bread, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[52],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3w3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13522,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519\/revisions\/13522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}