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

by Michael Morey

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299319407
• ISBN13: 9780299319403
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"