Tar and feather industries

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  • tarring and feathering: a physical punishment and a form of torture, used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge. It was used in feudal Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a type of mob vengeance.
    • here it is treated as an industry, a routine business