Confessing to the accusations is the only way a slave will be left alone: “John, Tituba’s husband, constantly reminded her that a slave must always survive and they need to do whatever it takes to make it” (Quarterly 12). No matter what the truth is, a slave must confess to what they are being tried for, just to see another day of life. Outsiders who are also slaves had a very difficult choice, whether they want to lie and confess to what a white man is accusing them of, or stand for what they believe and possibly …show more content…
Blacks were constantly discriminated because of their skin color, they were often enslaved, tortured, arrested, and imprisoned for any accusation made against them,and people of other races were often made scapegoats because they were outsiders. There were not many African Americans in the town of Salem,Massachusetts, causing the ones that were there to be picked out and picked on, which created a negative atmosphere. A lot of pointing of fingers went on in the town because of the hysteria. Most of the blame fell on African Americans causing them to be tortured and put in prison for a crime they did not commit. Social status played a large part in the Salem witch trials. A great amount of judgement came with scapegoating, most of the people who were made scapegoats were