Enslavement in a Puritan Village

It was lauded as the quintessential Puritan village by author Sumner Chilton Powell in his 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning history of its founding in 1638. But what was the true story of Sudbury, Massachusetts, the second town established west of Boston in the first decade of English Puritan settlement? Local historian Jane Sciacca, author of a new book Enslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold History of Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts, delves into church records, wills, bills of sale, medical records, diaries and more to tell us of the intimate lives of both Sudbury’s enslaved people and people who were enslavers, such as the Reverend Loring.

Free. Zoom. Registration required. https://congregationallibrary.org/events/enslavement-puritan-village