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	Bearing Witness: Exploring the Legacy of Enslavement Bearing Witness Exploring the Legacy of Enslavement in Ulster County, New York BY PHILIP WHITE, SUSAN STESSIN-COHN, ASHLEY HURLBURT-BIAGINI & ALBERT COOK Trade Paper, 6″ x 9″, 134 pages 43 illustrations including 3 Historic maps, photographs, and Historic Documents ISBN 9798985692181 $16.95 “Susan Stessin-Cohn and her team of Ulster County, New York, researchers have produced a gem of local American history. Focusing on the life stories of Black Ulster County residents, the book amply provides the reader with evocative mini-biographies of slavery and freedom in this important northern...	$16.95 Add:
	Fort Crailo and the Van Rensselaers Fort Crailo and the Van Rensselaers The Dutch Colonial Origins of Greenbush & the City of Rensselaer by Shirley W. Dunn Trade paperback, 208 pages, 6′ x 9′, 40 B&W illustrations ISBN: 9781883789824, Retail: $17.95 1663. As the first Dutch farms take root east of the Hudson River across from Fort Orange (Albany), a fortified farmhouse is built by the Van Rensselaers to protect their interests and provide a haven for settlers. Originally surrounded by a tall wooden palisade, Fort Crailo survived King Philip’s War, the French and Indian wars, and the Revolution. For...	$17.95 Add:
	BLOODY MOHAWK BLOODY MOHAWK Bloody Mohawk The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New Yorks Frontier By Richard Berleth The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier By Richard Berleth Foreword by Robert Weibel, New York State Historian and Chief Curator, New York State Museum Paper, 6x9, 384 pages, maps & illustrations ISBN 9781883789664 Loss not just loss of life, but loss of the common stuff that holds humanity together scarred the survivors and shaded the recollections they left to posterity. Loss is what gives the wind in the valley its special remorsefulness,...	$21.95 Add:
	The Life and Wars of John Stark STARK The Life and Wars of John Stark French and Indian War Ranger, Revolutionary War General by Richard V. Polhemus & John F. Polhemus Trade paperback, 6″ x 9″, 400 pages, 23 illustrations (maps, drawings, photos, paintings) $21.95, isbn 9781883789749 Engaging and enlightening. ... The authors subtitle their book French and Indian War Ranger, Revolutionary War General. But it is more. In several respects, it is an informative guide to key battles and individuals from the French and Indian War, in which Stark fought with the famed Roger's Rangers, and the events leading up...	$21.95 Add:
	In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery In Defiance Runaways from Slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley, 1735–1831 By Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini Foreword by A.J. Williams-Myers, Black Studies Department, SUNY at New Paltz Trade paperback, 8′x10′, 352 pages, 523 archival newspaper notices for runaway slaves, plus 15 notices for slaves captured, 9 notices for slaves for sale, and 2 notices offering to purchase slaves, all with full transcriptions Includes 9 tables analyzing the data in the 512 notices for runaways from Hudson Valley enslavers, glossary, indexes of names, locations,...	$25.95 Add: Min: 3
	In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery SECOND EDITION In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley 1735–1831 Second Edition, with more than 250 newly discovered runaway notices by Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini, foreword by A.J. Williams-Myers Trade paperback, 8″ x 10″, 480 pages, 830 transcriptions of archival newspaper notices, 602 with accompanying reproduction of the original notice, plus 9 tables analyzing the data, glossary, indexes of names, locations, and subjects, illustrations and maps. ISBN: 9798985692150, $35.00. NEW EDITION OF A LANDMARK BOOK ON SLAVERY IN NEW YORK In recent years,...	$35.00 Add:
	To Distress the French and Their Allies: Rogers' Rangers Rogers’ Rangers, 1755–1763 “To Distress the French and Their Allies” Volume I in a new series on “The Rangers of the French and Indian, Cherokee, and Pontiac’s Wars” BY TIM J. TODISH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GARY S. ZABOLY TRADE PAPER, 8 ½″ X 11″, 312 PAGES 140 MAPS, DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS, INCLUDING 60 PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY GARY S. ZABOLY ISBN 9798985692136 $39.95 “Destined to become a classic.” In the early days of the French and Indian War, the English Army suffered a series of devastating defeats, mostly at the hands of Canadian partisans and French-allied...	$39.95 Add: