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The Night Riders
The Night Riders was the name given by the press to the militant faction of tobacco farmers during a popular resistance to the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company of James B. Duke. On September 24, 1904, the tobacco planters of western Kentucky and the neighboring counties of western Tennessee formed the Dark Tobacco District Planters' Protective Association of Kentucky and Tennessee (called the Association or PPA). It urged farmers to boycott the American Tobacco Company and refuse to sell at the ridiculously low prices it offered. A more militant faction of farmers, led by David B. Amoss of Caldwell County, Kentucky, resorted to physical intimidation or burning the crops of those who ignored the boycott, finally targeting the tobacco warehouses of the ATC itself.
==Background==
The Dark Patch Tobacco War (or the Great Tobacco strike) in southwestern Kentucky and northern Tennessee extended from 1904 to 1909. It was the longest and most violent conflict between the end of the Civil War and the civil rights struggles of the mid 1960s. Originally known as the Silent Brigade'', The Night Riders were a vigilante force opposed to the American Tobacco Company because it priced tobacco so low that farmers could not make any profit from their work. The head of the Night Riders was David Amoss, a medical doctor and farmer.〔
The Amoss House in Caldwell County is dedicated to the history of Dr. Amoss and the Night Riders. The building is currently in danger of being sold.〔http://westernkyhistory.org/caldwellcemetery/cldwellhistsoc.html〕 Other area museums house numerous artifacts and personal histories regarding the era of the Night Riders.
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