Category: General Local Author Talk: Susan Stessin-Cohn"'> Local Author Talk: Susan Stessin-Cohn
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March 29, 2021
Join us and other Ulster County Libraries for this virtual local author talk! Susan Stessin-Cohn will present her book In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley 1735-1831, which documents hundreds of fugitive slaves in the Hudson River Valley in the 18th and 19th centuries through reproductions and transcriptions of archival materials. Please email programs@townofulsterlibrary.org to register.
Susan Stessin-Cohn is the Town Historian of New Paltz and is a member of the New Paltz Historical Society.