Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life With Lydia Moland

Lydia Moland will talk about Lydia Maria Child, one of Wayland’s most renowned citizens and a courageous abolitionist who lived on Old Sudbury Road in the mid-19th century. Child shocked her readers by publishing the first book-length argument against slavery – so radical that friends abandoned Child and her book sales plummeted.

Attend via Zoom OR in person in the Sanctuary at First Parish Wayland. Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/LydiaMariaChildWayland

Presented by the Wayland Museum and Historical Society, the First Parish Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library

Ms. Moland, author of the soon to be released Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life, conducted some of her research at the Wayland Museum & Historical Society where she reviewed letters written by Child as well as other documents owned by the Historical Society. Moland is a professor of philosophy at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.