If night riders’ objectives were to drive some Black families out of their homes and off their land, they might give targets leave-or-die ultimatums. “They told me that they were coming again in six weeks,” said Daniel Lane, after a pack of men pistol-whipped him. “Now, if a man is warned of danger and he stays and is caught again, it’s his own fault.”4 Daniel was not a foolish man; he recognized the threat to his life and departed Morgan County, Georgia, with the quickness.
