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The way we centre white women and erase the power dynamics of slavery & race in the retellings of Salem Witch Trials... 
https://twitter.com/NaijaFlyingDr/status/1287331967378370565
https://twitter.com/NaijaFlyingDr/status/1287331967378370565
The fear of African, Afro-Caribbean, and Native American spirituality and practices were key to triggering the Salem Witch Trials. Historians went years ignoring Tituba's biography and many still see thin, white, feminine, women in black as the 'witchy feminist resistance'.
See har der hitch up in di corna...
McMillan, T. (1994). Black Magic: Witchcraft, Race, and Resistance in Colonial New England. Journal of Black Studies
Tucker, V. S. (2000). Purloined Identity: The Racial Metamorphosis of Tituba of Salem Village. Journal of Black Studies
McMillan, T. (1994). Black Magic: Witchcraft, Race, and Resistance in Colonial New England. Journal of Black Studies
Tucker, V. S. (2000). Purloined Identity: The Racial Metamorphosis of Tituba of Salem Village. Journal of Black Studies
Anyway, The Obeah Law 1898 still sits on Jamaica's books and there is still a lot to uncover with the gendered dynamics of it.
I'm particularly interested in the ways healers on the plantation, that were needed to keep enslaved people alive, were criminalised replaced by MDs.
I'm particularly interested in the ways healers on the plantation, that were needed to keep enslaved people alive, were criminalised replaced by MDs.
*and replaced.
Ugh.
Ugh.
