Tarring And Feathering

Tarring and Feathering is an American practice of applying hot tar and a coating of feathers use to enforce not official justice or a kind o revenge. this type of punishment consists of the mobs was stripped to his waist. While all of his body was attached together, the hot tar was poured into all of the victims body, and here comes the interesting and cruel part. Either they throw feather into all his body or he was roll down a floor full of feathers.
This punishment was all about humiliation for the victim and before they take him on a wooden cart in front of all the citizens they give him a chance for apologize all of his behavior to the mobs demands, if he didn't apologize he was driven from town. This type of punishment was never an official case in the United States of America.

This type of punishment had variation in many kinds of things, an example is on the Irish Rebellion in this event they shaved the victims head, they tarred him and expand all of the feathers into the victims body. Some times it was more cruel, when he was already tarred and all the feathers in his body, they light up the feathers and let the feathers burn and damaged his body. in America the first incident was in 1776, Captain William Smith was poured all his body in tar and feathers and was left in the harbor of Norfolk, Virginia .

Another victim of this punishment was John Meintz, he had an interesting story involving tarring and feathering. In the las two years of WWI (World War I) some group of people entered John Meintz a German-American farmer home because they thought he was being disloyal to his country. They raped him and put him in a car and drove off. All this people assaulted him, whipped him, they tried to shoot him, and finally pour his body with tar and feathers. In conclusion Tarring and Feathering was a way not just for humiliation even it was for making people suffer and feel like nothing in a certain way.