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Book SynopsisIn 1898 the US sent troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence, including three regiments of the “Buffalo Soldiers”. Among them was David Fagen. 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 fate have remained a mystery - until now.
Trade ReviewWith dedicated sleuthing, informed speculation, and gifted storytelling style, Morey sheds new light on David Fagen, an African American insurgent against U.S. colonialism, who has long remained as elusive to historians as he was to the American soldiers that chased him through Philippine forests over a century ago."" - Paul Kramer, author of
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines""A model for how to take a mythic figure, about whom very little documentation exists, and successfully transform him into a living, breathing man whose life is a window to understanding the meaning of race, war, and masculinity in American society."" - Jennifer D. Keene, author of
Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of AmericaTable of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: The Young Man from Tampa
- 1 The Young Man from Tampa
- 2 Santiago
- 3 The Far Side of the World
- 4 Westward
- 5 The Waiting Game
- 6 Permissions to Hate
- 7 Benevolent Assimilation
- 8 Snowbound
- 9 “Fighting Fred” Funston
- 10 Slander
- 11 Stalemate
- 12 Sequoia
- 13 The White Man’s Burden
- 14 Aguinaldo Adrift
- 15 Over the Hill
- Part Two: Renegade
- 16 Another Kind of War
- 17 Billet Doux
- 18 The Death of Captain Godfrey
- 19 “The Afro-American Traitor Called David”
- 20 Urbano Lacuna
- 21 Mount Corona
- 22 Alstaetter
- 23 Funston’s Great Roundup
- 24 Sergeant Washington and Captain Fagen
- 25 Fall Offensive
- 26 Old Scores
- 27 “General Fagan”
- 28 “Negritos Soldados”
- 29 “The Courage of His Convictions”
- 30 Alstaetter Revisited
- 31 A Christmas Souvenir
- 32 The Revolution Falters
- 33 The Road to Palanan
- 34 Surrender
- Part Three: Ladrone
- 35 Ladrone
- 36 The Renegade Comes to Town
- 37 A People’s War
- 38 “The Old Arch-Renegade Fagan”
- Afterword
- A Note on Sources
- Notes
- Index
