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The major cause of the Black Patch Wars was the drastic reduction in price that the American Tobacco Company offered tobacco farmers for their crops. [5] In the last decade of the nineteenth century, farmers had earned a profit of from eight to twelve cents a pound, which was more than enough for a comfortable lifestyle. [1]
Tracey Campbell, "The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars" (1993) Suzanne Marshall, "Violence in the Black Patch of Kentucky and Tennessee" (1994) James O. Nall, "The Tobacco Night Riders of Kentucky and Tennessee, 1905-1909" (1939) Christopher Waldrep, "Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890-1915 ...
The Night Riders were involved in a series of raids that made up the Black Patch Tobacco Wars across Kentucky and Tennessee from 1904–1909, mainly destroying large tobacco companies' warehouses because the farmers believed their prices were unfair. [1] In 1910, he was put on trial for his leadership role in the Hopkinsville, Kentucky, raid of ...
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It is only one step removed from civil war." [9] From 1907 through 1908, other Night Riders had committed increasingly destructive crimes in the Black Patch Tobacco Wars, especially in Kentucky and Tennessee counties to the east of here. They had raided and taken control of the county seats of Princeton, Hopkinsville, and Russellville, Kentucky ...
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He gained the help of former Night Riders, including Macon Champion, who implicated fifteen other local farmers. [5] The arrests broke the power of the Night Riders and effectively ended the Black Patch War. Lieutenant Wilburn was rewarded with a promotion to captain. The battle against the American Tobacco Company continued, but now in the courts.
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- A quarter century ago, a man named Steve Parrish was the ugly voice of the tobacco industry. The tobacco wars were raging: States were suing the cigarette companies, whistle ...