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

"A well-researched work of creative scholarship . . . Waldrep's book is an important contribution to our understanding of economic relationships, rural life, and violence in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South."--George C. Rable, Anderson University

List of contents

Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. The Black Patch 5

2. The Tobacco Trust 19

3. Farmers Respond 36

4. Local Problems, Federal Help 52

5. "Hillbillies" and "Possum Hunters" 63

6. Night Riders 79

7. Local Law 102

8. State Law 114

9. Federal Law, Local Order 130

10. "Shirt-Tail" Night Riders 140

11. "No Longer the Cockey Gentleman of Yore" 161

Epilogue 183

Notes 189

Bibliography 231

Index 255

About the author

Christopher Waldrep

Product details

• Authors: Waldrep, Christopher Waldrep
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.1993
• EAN: 9780822313939
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1393-9
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General