Trial of David Amoss

David Amoss was a leader of the Night Riders, a vigilante group of Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee farmers that was an offshoot of the Planters' Protective Association (PPA). The Night Riders were involved in a series of raids that made up the Black Patch Tobacco Wars across Kentucky and Tennessee from 1904–1909, mainly destroying large tobacco companies' warehouses because the farmers believed their prices were unfair. In 1910, he was put on trial for his leadership role in the Hopkinsville, Kentucky raid of 1907. rdf:langString