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Riders in the Night (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.)
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Riders in the Night (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.)
Series: Anniversary Collection
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It was just before the turn of the century that James B. Duke,
after whom Duke University is named, managed to combine nearly all
the large foreign and American tobacco interests into a single
gigantic trust under the aegis of the American Tobacco Company. His
grand enterprise in hand, this son of a one-mule tobacco farmer in
North Carolina began an unscrupulous exploitation of the tobacco
farmers of Kentucky and Tennessee, depressing prices for their leaf
through his utter control of the market. The growers, sorely
stricken with poverty, found themselves unable to abide the yet
more dismal conditions that Duke's operation brought about, and
even less the heedless impositions of power of his hated trust.
Riders in the Night is the story of the revolt of the tobacco
growers against the American Tobacco Company, and the organization
of a resistance movement known as the "Night Riders," which
undertook by whip, firebrand, and gun to break the hold of the
"Trust." The sequence of most active violence spanned three years.
The "Hillbillies," growers who continued to deal with the Trust,
were forcefully brought into the fold and made to take the secret
oath of the Riders. The folk of the hills and hollows met in school
houses, churches, and at crossroads and united against the Trust
and the law -and-order-minded townspeople to do by violence what
the slow-moving law in Washington was not doing-restore competition
to the tobacco market. In this book are vividly depicted the
capture of towns, the incendiarism of millions of dollars in Trust
tobacco, midnight floggings, the destruction of crops, and the
personal tales of many of the individuals who labored and fought on
both sides. Harry Harrison Kroll writes from the point of view of
an eyewitness and provides the pungent scenes and dialogues that do
not usually find their way into history. His book is not only an
accurate delineation of the largest violent uprising in United
States history short of the Civil War, but offers an intimate sense
of life in tobacco country.
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