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Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture where a victim is stripped naked, or stripped to the waist, while wood tar (sometimes hot) is either poured or painted onto the person. The victim then either has feathers thrown on them or is rolled around on a pile of feathers so that they stick to the tar.
Malcolm was stripped to the waist and covered with burning hot tar and feathers before he was forced into a waiting cart. The crowd took him to the Liberty Tree and told him to apologize for his behavior, renounce his customs commission, and curse King George III. When Malcolm refused, the crowd put a rope around his neck and threatened to hang ...
The October coroner's jury concluded that Kelsey was murdered and that Sammis and five others had aided and abetted through the tar and feathering outrage, yet did not name a murderer. [1] New York Governor John Adams Dix opened a $3,000 reward (equivalent to $76,000 in 2023) for information leading to the conviction of the murderer. [4]
Being ridden on a rail was typically a form of extrajudicial punishment administered by a mob, sometimes in connection with tarring and feathering, [1] intended to show community displeasure with the offender so the offender either conformed behavior to the mob's demands or left the community.
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The Johnson Farm is also significant as the site of the tarring and feathering of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon in March 1832. [2] [3] The Smiths returned to Kirtland in 1832 and the Johnsons moved to Kirtland the following year. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased the property in 1956 and began using it as a historical site.
Illustration of a mob tarring and feathering Joseph Smith. According to recorded accounts of the event, the mob broke down the front door, took Smith's oldest surviving adopted child from his arms, [ 6 ] dragged Smith from the room, leaving his exposed child on a trundle bed and forcing Emma and the others from the house, the mob threatening ...
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