Featured Image Source Image 1: Excise Payment in Tar and Feathers Context: The caption reads “The Bostonians paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering”. This cartoon depicts a fiendish-looking group of Bostonians “paying their dues” to the British tax collector by tarring and feathering him. Tarring and feathering is the act of dousing someone in … Continue reading “The Unhappy Sufferers”: Bostonians vs. Brits circa. 1770