File:Philip Dawe (attributed), The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring and Feathering (1774).jpg

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A depiction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tarring_and_feathering" class="extiw" title="w:tarring and feathering">tarring and feathering</a> of Commissioner of Customs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Malcolm_(Loyalist)" class="extiw" title="w:John Malcolm (Loyalist)">John Malcolm</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" class="extiw" title="w:Loyalist (American Revolution)">Loyalist</a>, by five <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" class="extiw" title="w:Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriots</a> on under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Tree" class="extiw" title="w:Liberty Tree">Liberty Tree</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" class="extiw" title="w:Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" class="extiw" title="w:Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>. Tea is also being poured into Malcolm's mouth. The print shows the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party" class="extiw" title="w:Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a> occurring in the background, though that incident had in fact taken place four weeks earlier. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6806">The Bostonians paying the excise-man, or tarring and feathering</a>. History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, American Social History Project, Center for Media and Learning (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUNY_Graduate_Center" class="extiw" title="w:CUNY Graduate Center">CUNY Graduate Center</a>) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University" class="extiw" title="w:George Mason University">George Mason University</a>). Retrieved on 1 May 2011.

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current07:01, 17 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 07:01, 17 January 20171,327 × 1,731 (2.86 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)A depiction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tarring_and_feathering" class="extiw" title="w:tarring and feathering">tarring and feathering</a> of Commissioner of Customs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Malcolm_(Loyalist)" class="extiw" title="w:John Malcolm (Loyalist)">John Malcolm</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" class="extiw" title="w:Loyalist (American Revolution)">Loyalist</a>, by five <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" class="extiw" title="w:Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriots</a> on <span style="white-space:nowrap"><time class="dtstart" datetime="1744-01-05">5 January 1744</time></span> under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Tree" class="extiw" title="w:Liberty Tree">Liberty Tree</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" class="extiw" title="w:Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" class="extiw" title="w:Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>. Tea is also being poured into Malcolm's mouth. The print shows the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party" class="extiw" title="w:Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a> occurring in the background, though that incident had in fact taken place four weeks earlier. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6806">The Bostonians paying the excise-man, or tarring and feathering</a>. History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, American Social History Project, Center for Media and Learning (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUNY_Graduate_Center" class="extiw" title="w:CUNY Graduate Center">CUNY Graduate Center</a>) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University" class="extiw" title="w:George Mason University">George Mason University</a>). Retrieved on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2011-05-01">1 May 2011</span>.
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