HIST337: Social Violence in America

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Johnston, David Claypoole, Lithographer. The Bostonians paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London. United States Boston Massachusetts, 1830. Boston: Pendleton. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2006691557/.

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