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Tarring and feathering

Index Tarring and feathering

Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture and humiliation used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge. [1]

60 relations: American frontier, American Revolution, Anti-German sentiment, Bailiff, Bangor, Maine, Billerica, Massachusetts, Christian the Younger of Brunswick, Debtor, Early modern Europe, Early modern period, Ellsworth, Maine, European colonialism, Feather, German Americans, Holy Land, Industrial Workers of the World, Irish Catholics, James Howell, Johannes Bapst, John Malcolm (Loyalist), Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Know Nothing, Ku Klux Klan, Latter Day Saint movement, Liberty of the Savoy, Lynching, Massachusetts, Maypole, Metaphor, Minnesota, Norfolk, Notes and Queries, Patriot (American Revolution), Pillory, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Richard Hakluyt, Richard I of England, Riding a rail, Roman Catholic Diocese of Halberstadt, Salem, Massachusetts, San Pedro, Los Angeles, Seal of the Confessional in the Catholic Church, Society of Jesus, Somerset House, Strand, London, Tar, Tarring and feathering in popular culture, The American Historical Review, The Straight Dope, ..., The Troubles, Tulsa Outrage, Ulster loyalism, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Virginia, War bond, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Whiskey Rebellion, Whitecapping, World War I. Expand index (10 more) »

American frontier

The American frontier comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of American expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last mainland territories as states in 1912.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.

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Anti-German sentiment

Anti-German sentiment (or Germanophobia) is defined as an opposition to or fear of Germany, its inhabitants, its culture and the German language.

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Bailiff

A bailiff (from Middle English baillif, Old French baillis, bail "custody, charge, office"; cf. bail, based on the adjectival form, baiulivus, of Latin bajulus, carrier, manager) is a manager, overseer or custodian; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given.

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Bangor, Maine

Bangor is a city in the U.S. state of Maine, and the county seat of Penobscot County.

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Billerica, Massachusetts

Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Christian the Younger of Brunswick

Christian the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (September 20, 1599 – June 16, 1626), a member of the House of Welf, titular Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt, was a German Protestant military leader during the early years of the Thirty Years' War.

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Debtor

A debtor is an entity that owes a debt to another entity.

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Early modern Europe

Early modern Europe is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century.

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Early modern period

The early modern period of modern history follows the late Middle Ages of the post-classical era.

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Ellsworth, Maine

Ellsworth is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Maine, United States.

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European colonialism

European colonialism refers to the worldwide colonial expansion of European countries, which began in the early modern period, c. 1500.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and other, extinct species' of dinosaurs.

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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Holy Land

The Holy Land (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ הַקּוֹדֶשׁ, Terra Sancta; Arabic: الأرض المقدسة) is an area roughly located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that also includes the Eastern Bank of the Jordan River.

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Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America.

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Irish Catholics

Irish Catholics are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland that are both Catholic and Irish.

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James Howell

James Howell (c. 1594 – 1666) was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age.

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Johannes Bapst

Johannes Bapst (b. at La Roche, Fribourg, Switzerland, 17 December 1815; d. at Mount Hope, Maryland, U.S.A., 2 November 1887) was a Swiss Jesuit missionary and educator.

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John Malcolm (Loyalist)

John Malcolm (died 1788) was a sea captain, army officer, and British customs official who was the victim of the most publicized tarring and feathering incident during the American Revolution.

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Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism's Founder is a biography of Joseph Smith Jr., founder and prophet of the Latter Day Saint movement, by Richard Bushman.

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Know Nothing

The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855 and commonly known as the Know Nothing movement, was an American nativist political party that operated nationally in the mid-1850s.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

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Latter Day Saint movement

The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.

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Liberty of the Savoy

The Savoy was a manor and liberty located between the Liberty of Westminster and the City of London in the county of Middlesex.

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Lynching

Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Maypole

A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place.

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries is a long-running quarterly scholarly journal that publishes short articles related to "English language and literature, lexicography, history, and scholarly antiquarianism".

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Patriot (American Revolution)

Patriots (also known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or American Whigs) were those colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution and declared the United States of America as an independent nation in July 1776.

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Pillory

The pillory was a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse.

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA or Provisional IRA) was an Irish republican revolutionary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate the reunification of Ireland and bring about an independent socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland.

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Richard Hakluyt

Richard Hakluyt (1553 – 23 November 1616) was an English writer.

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Richard I of England

Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death.

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Riding a rail

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.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Halberstadt

The Bishopric of Halberstadt was a Roman Catholic diocese (Bistum Halberstadt; 804–1648) Catholic-Hierarchy.org.

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Salem, Massachusetts

Salem is a historic, coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, located on Massachusetts' North Shore.

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San Pedro, Los Angeles

San Pedro is a community within the city of Los Angeles, California.

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Seal of the Confessional in the Catholic Church

In the Roman Catholic Church, the Seal of Confession (or Seal of the Confessional) is the absolute duty of priests not to disclose anything that they learn from penitents during the course of the Sacrament of Penance (confession).

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Somerset House

Somerset House is a large Neoclassical building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge.

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Strand, London

Strand (or the Strand) is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, Central London.

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Tar

Tar is a dark brown or black viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic materials through destructive distillation.

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Tarring and feathering in popular culture

Tarring and feathering is a physical punishment, used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge.

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The American Historical Review

The American Historical Review is the official publication of the American Historical Association.

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The Straight Dope

"The Straight Dope" was an online question-and-answer newspaper column published from 1973 to 2018 in the Chicago Reader and syndicated in eight newspapers in the United States.

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The Troubles

The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century.

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Tulsa Outrage

The Tulsa Outrage was an act of vigilante violence perpetrated by the Knights of Liberty against members of the Industrial Workers of the World on November 7, 1917 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Ulster loyalism

Ulster loyalism is a political ideology found primarily among working class Ulster Protestants in Northern Ireland, whose status as a part of the United Kingdom has remained controversial.

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Vicksburg, Mississippi

Vicksburg is the only city in, and county seat of Warren County, Mississippi, United States.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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War bond

War bonds are debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war.

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Washington County, Pennsylvania

Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Whiskey Rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington.

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Whitecapping

Whitecapping was a violent lawless movement among farmers that occurred specifically in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarring_and_feathering

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