Fagen: An African American Renegade in the Philippine-American War

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In 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence, including three regiments of the famed African American "Buffalo Soldiers." Among them was David Fagen, a twenty-year-old private in the Twenty-Fourth Infantry, who deserted to join the Filipino guerrillas. He led daring assaults and ambushes against his former comrades and commanders—who relentlessly pursued him without success—and his name became famous in the Philippines and in the African American community. The outlines of Fagen's legend have been known for more than a century, but the details of his military achievements, his personal history, and his ultimate fate have remained a mystery—until now. Michael Morey tracks Fagen's life from his youth in Tampa as a laborer in a phosphate camp through his troubled sixteen months in the army, and, most importantly, over his long-obscured career as a guerrilla officer. Morey places this history in its larger military, political, and social context to tell the story of the young renegade whose courage and defiance challenged the supremacist assumptions of the time. project_muse_63450-2253105 project_muse_63450-2253106 project_muse_63450-2253107 project_muse_63450-2253108 project_muse_63450-2253110 project_muse_63450-2253111 project_muse_63450-2253112 project_muse_63450-2253113 project_muse_63450-2253242 project_muse_63450-2253114 project_muse_63450-2253115 project_muse_63450-2253116 project_muse_63450-2253117 project_muse_63450-2253118 project_muse_63450-2253119 project_muse_63450-2253120 project_muse_63450-2253121 project_muse_63450-2253122 project_muse_63450-2253123 project_muse_63450-2253125 project_muse_63450-2253126 project_muse_63450-2253127 project_muse_63450-2253128 project_muse_63450-2253129 project_muse_63450-2253130 project_muse_63450-2253131 project_muse_63450-2253132 project_muse_63450-2253133 project_muse_63450-2253134 project_muse_63450-2253135 project_muse_63450-2253136 project_muse_63450-2253137 project_muse_63450-2253138 project_muse_63450-2253139 project_muse_63450-2253140 project_muse_63450-2253141 project_muse_63450-2253142 project_muse_63450-2253143 project_muse_63450-2253145 project_muse_63450-2253146 project_muse_63450-2253147 project_muse_63450-2253148 project_muse_63450-2253149 project_muse_63450-2253150 project_muse_63450-2253151 project_muse_63450-2253152 project_muse_63450-2253153 project_muse_63450-2253154