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The punishment of tarring and feathering in the American Old West has been "forever more given to posterity in comics". [54] It is used in ironic fashion in the comic series Lucky Luke, where a number of antagonists, usually cardsharps and swindlers, are shown tarred and feathered.
Riding the rail (also called being "run out of town on a rail") was a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries in which an offender was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two or more bearers. The subject was then paraded around town or taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside.
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.
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]
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.
In at least the 1962 film, tarring and feathering was the punishment to be faced by the main character, Harold Hill. Mirutsa ( talk ) 02:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC) [ reply ] Long time later, the pop culture section is now re-introduced and contains a reference to The Music Man .
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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