Redemption from Tyranny: Herman Husband’s American Revolution by Bruce E. Stewart

Herman Husband (1724-1795) was born in Maryland but moved to Sandy Creek, North Carolina, in 1762. Four years later he was an organizer of a local Association formed to support local farmers over wealth land-owners. He was jailed until an angry mob of supporters released him.  In 1768 when the Regulators formed, Husband became a leading spokesman and pamphleteer. The Royal Governor denounced him and arrested him. The next year, Husband was elected to the North Carolina legislature from which he was expelled, charged and jailed, but released and in 1770 and published a book about the Regulators. The following year, when the movement was defeated in the Battle of Alamance, Husband moved back to Maryland, and from there to Pennsylvania, where he continued to publish pamphlets about the issues of the common people and lived under an assumed name until after the American Revolution. In the 1790s he he participated in the Whiskey Rebellion for which he was tried and sentenced to death, but,