Tarred and feathered

In a Tarred and Feathered attack, the Tax collector the crowd chose was to be stripped to his waist. Hot tar was  poured onto the person while he was being hold by the other Patriots. Then the victim  had feathers thrown on him and was rolled around on a pile of feathers so that they stuck to his body.Sometimes the victim was shown around town on a cart so the other ones could see him and be afraid.Their goal was to give them enough pain on a person to cause him to quit his job or leave town.

Tar could easily be found in the shipyards and everyone had feathers in their pillows.Like the materials were easy to get, tarring and feathering was a common threat and punishment. Although the tarring was not so painful, it was extremely unpleasant.

The first victim of this tarred and feathered in America was in 1766 it was Captain William Smith , he was tarred and feathered, and dumped into the harbor by a mob. He was picked up by a boat, he was found beat up. Tax collectors would no longer work or even be in town because they feared the patriots would go and get them tarred and feathered or even burn their houses down, so their fear grew greatly and they quit their jobs.