Violence in the Black Patch of Kentucky and Tennessee / Suzanne Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Suzanne, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Patch War, 1906-1909.

Violence--Kentucky--History.

Violence.

Rural conditions.

History.

Kentucky--Rural conditions.

Kentucky.

Violence--Tennessee--History.

Tennessee--Rural conditions.

Tennessee.

Physical Description:

xv, 198 p : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [1994]

Summary:

From its settlement in the late 1700s, the Black Patch - an agricultural region of western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee - has been known for its dark-fired, heavy-leafed tobacco, so dark a green that it is called "black". But as the settlers of this region sowed the seeds of tobacco, they also sowed the seeds of violence. In Violence in the Black Patch of Kentucky and Tennessee, Suzanne Marshall provides a thorough, engrossing depiction of the role played by violence in the development of the Black Patch culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-192) and index.

ISBN:

0826209718

OCLC:

30914294