What is a character analysis of Tituba?

Tituba was a real person who became the hero of Maryse Condé's work of historical fiction, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. She was a slave from Barbados who was purchased by a man named Samuel Parris from Massachusetts. While she was enslaved by Parris, she moved with his family to Salem, where she became the first person to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692. Tituba confessed to witchcraft and claimed that Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne participated in witchcraft with her. According to court documents from her trial, the three women were accused of baking a witch cake in an attempt to learn the name of the person who bewitched Parris’s daughter and her cousin, who were experiencing strange fits. The women were arrested, despite the fact that they were attempting to heal Parris’s daughter and niece, and Tituba was jailed.
Though Condé bases her story of Tituba on transcripts of her trial and other historical documents, the character she creates is a blend of fact and fiction. Based on what Condé learned about Tituba from the historical record, she was a strong, complex, and good woman. She treated the Parris family and the people in Salem Village kindly, and until fear of witchcraft in the village escalated to extremes, she was respected by the villagers for good will toward others and her ability to heal people. Tituba was also highly spiritual, and she relied on her spiritual beliefs to bring her strength during her trial and imprisonment.