In the years preceding the American Revolution, angry colonists sometimes tarred and feathered local officials suspected of conspiring against liberty. Whether those officials had engaged in a conspiracy per se made little difference. After all, the colonists recognized in those officials and their British overlords a pattern of behavior that...
In the years preceding the American Revolution, angry colonists sometimes tarred and feathered local officials suspected of conspiring against liberty. Whether those officials had engaged in a conspiracy per se made little difference. After all, the colonists recognized in those officials and their British overlords a pattern of behavior that…