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Tituba's race is often cited as Carib-Indian or of African descent, but contemporary sources describe her only as an " Indian.

" Research by Elaine Breslaw has suggested that she may well have been captured in what is now Venezuela and brought to Barbados, and so may have been an Arawak Indian.

Other slightly later descriptions of her, by Gov.

Thomas Hutchinson writing his history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 18th century, describe her as a " Spanish Indian.

" In that day, that typically meant a Native American from the Carolinas / Georgia / Florida.