Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890-1915

by Christopher Waldrep

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In the late nineteenth century, industrialization was making its way into rural America. In an agricultural region of Kentucky and Tennessee called the Black Patch for the dark tobacco grown there, big business arrived with a vengeance, eliminating competition, manipulating prices, and undermining local control. The farmers fought back. Night Riders tells the story of the struggle that followed, and reveals the ambiguities and complexities of a drama...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822313936

ISBN13:9780822313939

Release Date:September 1993

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:278 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) State & Local

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