USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Criticize severely, punish, as in The traditionalists often want to tar and feather those who don’t conform. This expression alludes to a former brutal punishment in which a person was smeared with tar and covered with feathers, which then stuck.

Detailed explanation-2: -It involved placing a conical cap filled with boiling pitch on a bound victim’s head until it cooled and hardened. The pitch would then be removed, taking away skin from the victim’s head and leaving them scarred. Why was tarring and feathering revived in Belfast on Sunday?

Detailed explanation-3: -Although rarely fatal, victims of tarring and feathering attacks were not only humiliated by being held down, shaved, stripped naked and covered in a boiled sticky substance and feathers, but their skin often became burned and blistered or peeled off when solvents were used to remove the remnants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Malcolm was stripped, whipped, beaten, tarred, and feathered for several hours. He was then taken to the Liberty Tree and forced to drink tea until he vomited.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Sons of Liberty was most likely organized in the summer of 1765 as a means to protest the passing of the Stamp Act of 1765. Their motto was, “No taxation without representation.” The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring and Feathering, 1774.