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Though Tituba is born into slavery, she is set free after her mother Abena is hanged and her "father" Yao commits suicide. Seven or eight years later, after her adoptive mother Mama Yaya dies, Tituba meets and quickly falls in love with John Indian. She is so infatuated with John Indian that she is willing to move in with him and thus, in effect, resubjugate herself to slavery, since she now must answer to Susanna Endicott. Were you surprised that she was willing to surrender her freedom so quickly? How would you explain her decision to do so? And what do you think about her relationship with John Indian and the different ways each one approaches the condition of slavery and racial oppression?

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GIVEN BELOW:

Despite being born into slavery, Tituba was managed to escape its clutches by her luck. When she meets John Indian and falls in love with him, she willingly agrees to move in with him and resubjugate herself to slavery by being answerable to Susanna Endicott. This is not surprising that she was willing to surrender her freedom so quickly, this is because we humans are emotional beings and in the heat of emotions we are carried away when our emotions are overpowered4

. Her decision to do so was motivated by her feelings. Being born into slavery, she must have felt that this love would liberate her. Her relationship with John Indian cannot be purely described as the definition of slavery and oppression. This is because when she falls in love with him and moves with him, she does so out of love. In hopes of starting a new life, with love and care. Marrying a person and moving with him is not oppression nor slavery