The Black Patch Tobacco Wars

(smokingpipes.com) The Black Patch Tobacco Wars is the name given to a violent episode in American history that took place among 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee at the turn of the 20th century. The unrest was over tobacco and its prices, and about the way growers fought back against the corporate monopoly that was ruining them, and about the desperation of people faced with losing their homes, their livelihoods, and their heritage. Continued