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Tarring and feathering was a very common punishment in British colonies in North America during 1766 through 1776. The most famous American tarring and feathering is that of John Malcolm , a British Loyalist, during the American Revolution .
Richardson was a customs official who had killed a 12-year-old Bostonian named Christopher Seider, but escaped punishment by receiving a royal pardon. [5] Malcolm was stripped to the waist and covered with burning hot tar and feathers before he was forced into a waiting cart.
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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A favorite pastime was tarring and feathering 'obnoxious Tories.' Recalcitrant Loyalists might be treated to a common punishment, riding the rail, in painful fashion. [12] After Yorktown the British were left in control of only one significant stronghold, New York City. It was the main debarkation point for Loyalists leaving America.
The Sons of Liberty popularized the use of tar and feathering to punish and humiliate offending government officials starting in 1767. This method was also used against British Loyalists during the American Revolution. This punishment had long been used by sailors to punish their mates. [13]
Some ancient traditions don't hang back when it comes to punishment -- cutting off the hands of thieves, castrating rapists, tarring and feathering anyone people didn't like. But when a group of ...
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 ...