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Tropical Plants
Tropical plants symbolize appreciation of the natural world as a form of knowledge. In contrast to white slaveholders like Susanna Endicott, who stays indoors and eats only imported foods, Tituba embraces the vegetation in…
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Black Cats
To the Puritans of Salem, Massachusetts, black cats are an ominous symbol of witchcraft. For paranoid villagers like Samuel Parris and his family, the mere presence of such a creature near their home is a…
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