Lutie Johnson is a young black woman who is trying to raise her son in Harlem during the 1940s while avoiding the violence so prevalent in the area and the poverty that seems inescapable.
Gentle strong hands capable of nursing thd sick, of spinning strong even thread; of planting a garden; of caring for livestock; these hands bring Tituba to trial for witchcraft.
Tells how Tituba, a slave, was sold in Barbados to a preacher bound for Boston and became one of three women convicted at the beginning of the Salem witch trials.
