Public Humiliation, Tarring and Feathering, 1774

A new method of macarony making, as practiced at Boston in North America. American revolutionaries tarring and feathering a tax collector under the gallows. Tarring and feathering is a form of public humiliation used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge. Lithograph by Pendleton, 1830, after print published in London in 1774

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1770s 1773 1774 Brutality Collector Colonists Feathering Humiliation Loyalists Method Patriots Rebels Tarred Tarring Unofficial

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