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Go to this website for information on tarring and feathering. http://everything2.com/e2node/Tarred%2520and%2520feathered Also, there is a really disturbing and graphic tarring and feathering scene in the new HBO John Adams Miniseries in the First chapter: Join or Die.

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it was a torture, sometimes an execution, that involves a victim to be naked, they then pour tar all over the victim, and the final thing is they throw feathers on the victim, and if he/she is to be executed, he will be taken off to be killed

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Its a form of punishment where the subject gets poured hot tar on their bodies. Then feathers are thrown at the subject.

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"tarred and feathered" is when a person has hot tar poured onto them and is then covered with feathers as a physical punishment during the Rev. War time zone

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Often, when collectors came through towns to collect taxes, some people would pour hot tar on him and sometimes down his throat, and coat him in chicken feathers.

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Most of the victims of tarring and feathering were tax collectors for the British crown.

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