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| Description: A noose hanging from a “Liberty Tree” reveals this artist’s bias: The “tar-and-feathering” of a British official would doubtlessly culminate in greater violence. As historian Gordon Wood points out, however, the mob actions of the colonists often “grew out of folk festivals and traditional popular rites.” Tarring and feathering, though painful and occasionally dangerous, was mostly a humiliation. By the early 1770s, though, the mockery was becoming tinged with violence.
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