Planter's Protective Association and its conflicts Ewing stressed that his plan would require the cooperation of all tobacco growers. Ewing's plan, they would grow tobacco, but store it in Ewing's warehouses until the market price increased. The farmers formed the Planters' Protective Association to oppose the monopoly. In some areas the price fell as low as three, two or even one cent a pound.
Farmers were losing money just by planting their crops. This was two cents per pound less than the cost of producing tobacco. After eliminating competition, the ATC paid an average of four cents a pound from 1901 to 1903. This changed with the turn of the twentieth century, due to the development of a virtual monopoly by the American Tobacco Company. 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.
Night rider Patch#
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. Other museums in the area house numerous artifacts and personal histories regarding the era of the Night Riders.
The Amoss House in Caldwell County, Kentucky, became a museum dedicated to preserving the history of Amoss and the Night Riders.
Night rider trial#
In 1910, he was put on trial for his leadership role in the Hopkinsville, Kentucky, raid of 1907. The head of the Night Riders was David Amoss, a medical doctor and farmer. Originally known as the Silent Brigade, The Night Riders were a terrorist force opposed to the American Tobacco Company because it priced tobacco so low that farmers could not make any profit from their work. It was the longest and most violent conflict between the end of the Civil War and the civil rights struggles of the mid 1960s. The Black Patch Tobacco War (or the Great Tobacco strike) in southwestern Kentucky and northern Tennessee extended from 1904 to 1909. Their largest raid of this type was their occupation and attack on areas of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1907.īackground David Alfred Amoss (1857–1915) Becoming known as the Night Riders, due to their night-time activities, they also targeted and destroyed the tobacco warehouses of the ATC. Amoss of Caldwell County, Kentucky, resorted to terrorism-most notably, the lynching of the Walker family and the lynching of Captain Quentin Rankin and the kidnapping of Colonel R. Groups of a more militant faction of farmers, trained and led by Dr. It urged farmers to boycott the ATC and refuse to sell at the ruinously low prices being offered in a quasi-monopoly market. On September 24, 1904, the tobacco planters of western Kentucky and the neighboring counties of West Tennessee formed the Dark Fired Tobacco District, or Black Patch District Planters' Protective Association of Kentucky and Tennessee (called "the Association" or PPA). The Night Riders was the name given by the press to the militant, terrorist faction of tobacco farmers during a popular resistance to the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company (ATC) of James B. Headline in the Lexington Herald-Leader of December 10, 1907 For other uses, see Night Rider (disambiguation).
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