Image: Philip Dawe (attributed), The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring and Feathering (1774)
Description: A depiction of the tarring and feathering of Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm, a Loyalist, by five Patriots on 5 January 1774 under the Liberty Tree in Boston, Massachusetts. Tea is also being poured into Malcolm's mouth. The print shows the Boston Tea Party occurring in the background, though that incident had in fact taken place four weeks earlier. See The Bostonians paying the excise-man, or tarring and feathering. History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, American Social History Project, Center for Media and Learning (CUNY Graduate Center) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University). Retrieved on 1 May 2011.
Title: The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring and Feathering.
Credit: John Carter Brown Library
Author: Philip Dawe
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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