Redemption from Tyranny

Herman Husband was born in 1724; his father and his grandfather before him had become prominent Maryland landowners and enslavers. He died in 1795, trying to ride home from Philadelphia to Bedford County, Pennsylvania, after imprisonment during a failed effort to convict him of sedition against the New Republic. Husband led a remarkable life. After an early career working for his father and then utilizing Quaker connections to enter the trade circuit in the Caribbean, he moved in 1754 to the North Carolina backcountry in search of cheap land. From then on, he farmed and was active in defending smaller landowners against the neglect of distant governments and the power of political and economic elites. He was a racist, and he hated slavery for what he thought it did to whites. To white men, he was an egalitarian. That stance made him a leader in the North Carolina Regulation (and

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