Author : Gladys-Marie Fry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807849637
During and after the days of slavery in the United States, one way in which slaveowners, overseers, and other whites sought to control the black population was to encourage and exploit a fear of the supernatural. By planting rumors of evil spirits, haunte
Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Kentucky
ISBN : 1879941147
Warren's first novel set in the tobacco wars of Kentucky in the early 20th century.
Author :
Publisher : McSweeneys Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781938073724
Matt Furie's glorious first picture book — now in paperback, too! A nocturnal frog and rat wake at midnight, share a salad of lettuce and bugs, and strike off on an epic dirtbike adventure toward the sunrise. As the friends make their way from forest to bat cave to ghost town to ocean to shore and beyond, new friends are discovered, a huge crab is narrowly avoided, and a world is revealed. Packed with colorful characters and surprising details on every hand-drawn page, The Night Riders is the ideal book for anyone who has ever wanted to surf to the mountains on the back of a dolphin.
Author : Christopher Waldrep
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822313939
A reassessment of the vigilante bands that sought to force small, independent-minded tobacco growers to adhere to practices that would benefit the larger farmers in areas of Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, and Missouri. Argues that they were not against modernization, but wanted to maintain their elite status by engaging in the national market while keeping their black workers cheap and dependent. The chapters have been published previously as articles. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Todhunter Ballard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Large type books
ISBN :
Author : Leigh Greenwood
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402263961
"USA Today"-bestselling author and top Western romance author Greenwood is back with this installment in her Night Riders series. Original.
Author : Bill Cunningham
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
A non-fictional tale of the Kentucky and Tennessee tobacco wars and farmers' revolt against the impoverishing tobacco prices of the "Duke Trust." Story of James B. Duke's tobacco empire and Dr. David Amoss from Kentucky, who led the secret organiztion known as the "Night Riders.
Author : Geoffrey Thorne
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Automobile racing
ISBN : 9781631403118
"Knight rider created by Glen A. Larson."
Author : Ray Slater
Publisher : Subterranean
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780964989016
Author : Jack Peebles
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Brigands and robbers
ISBN : 9780970764706
