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SUMMARY:The History of Enslavement in Sudbury and Wayland with Jane Sciacca
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 ane Sciacca[/caption]\n\nOn January 21\, 2025\, a new history of Sudbury a
 nd Wayland was published. Enslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold H
 istory of Sudbury and Wayland\, Massachusetts by Jane Sciacca challenges t
 he widely held belief that slavery was only a Southern institution.\n\nCol
 onial Sudbury (modern-day Wayland and Sudbury) was described as the quinte
 ssential Puritan village by author Sumner Chilton Powell in Puritan Villag
 e: The Formation of a New England Town\, his 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning h
 istory of the town's founding in 1638. Yet Sudbury’s early inhabitants\,
  including some of its most prominent citizens\, held and sold enslaved Bl
 ack people throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Never befo
 re published\, these stories from preserved records highlight the lives of
  men\, women and children held in bondage and expand our knowledge of ensl
 avement and its pervasive impact in Sudbury and similar pre-Revolutionary 
 New England villages.\n\nAt Beth El and on Zoom (link here).&nbsp\;Books s
 igned by the author will be available for sale at this event.\n\nJane Scia
 cca is a retired national park ranger with a degree in history education f
 rom Simmons University. Her work as an interpreter for the National Park S
 ervice in Concord\, Boston and Cambridge led to her interest in researchin
 g enslavement and abolition in her own community of Wayland\, where she ha
 s lived with her family for more than fifty years. As chair of the Wayland
  Historical Commission\, she oversaw the 1981 publication of the first his
 tory of Wayland as a separate town\, The Puritan Village Evolves.\n\nCo-sp
 onsored by the Beth El Antiracism Working Group\, Jewish Learning Opportun
 ities for Teens (J-LOFT) and &nbsp\;First Parish Unitarian Universalist of
  Sudbury.
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