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The Black Patch Tobacco Wars was a period of violence in the dark tobacco region of Western Kentucky and Tennessee at the turn of the 20th century circa 1904-1909. The "Black Patch," as it is called, is made up of about 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee and the leading worldwide supplier of Dark Fired Tobacco. Dark Fired Tobacco derives its name for the wood smoke and fire curing process it undergoes after harvest. This type of tobacco is used primarily in snuff, chewing and pipe tobacco. To understand the Tobacco Wars one must realize that it was not one singular event but a very complex series of events and a dark chapter in the history of the region. The primary antagonists were the American Tobacco Company (ATC) owned by James B. Duke, historically one of the largest U.S. industrial monopolies, and the Dark Tobacco District Planters' Protective Association of Kentucky and Tennessee (PPA), an association of farmers formed in September 24, 1904 in protest of the monopoly ATC practice of paying deflated prices for their product. The initial idea of the PPA was to "pool" 〔Suzanne Marshall, "Violence in the Black Patch of Kentucky and Tennessee" (1994)〕 and withhold their tobacco until the ATC agreed to pay higher prices. When this plan failed to work, many farmers resorted to violence and vigilante practices. The result of these vigilante actions was the destruction of crops, machinery, livestock, tobacco warehouses and even the capture of whole towns by the group known as the Silent Brigade or Night Riders. ==The American Tobacco Company and The Dark Tobacco District Planters' Protective Association of Kentucky and Tennessee== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Patch Tobacco Wars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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