Enslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold History of Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts

Colonial Sudbury, Massachusetts, was designated the Puritan Village by author Sumner Chilton Powell in his 1964 Pulitzer...
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Author: Jane H. Sciacca
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Enslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold History of Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts by Sciacca, Jane H.

Enslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold History of Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts

$286.09

Enslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold History of Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts

$286.09
Author: Jane H. Sciacca
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Colonial Sudbury, Massachusetts, was designated the Puritan Village by author Sumner Chilton Powell in his 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the founding of this quintessential New England town in 1638. Yet this quiet rural village also had a darker history that is often overlooked. Sudbury's Puritan inhabitants, including some of the most prominent citizens in town, held and sold enslaved Black people throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stories gleaned from preserved records highlight the lives of men, women and children held in bondage, including a court case involving an enslaved boy repeatedly beaten and left scarred by his master less than thirty years after the town's founding, as well as the bill of sale of Phebey, age two, to a woman in another town. Local author Jane Sciacca uncovers the hidden side of suffering in this New England town.



Author: Jane H. Sciacca
Publisher: History Press
Published: 01/21/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.18w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781467157179

About the Author

Jane Sciacca is a retired national park ranger with a degree in history education from Simmons University. Her work as an interpreter for the National Park Service in Concord, Boston and Cambridge led to her interest in researching enslavement and abolition in her own community of Wayland, where she has lived with her family for more than fifty years. As chair of the Wayland Historical Commission, she oversaw the 1981 publication of the first history of Wayland as a separate town, The Puritan Village Evolves.


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