This is a political cartoon giving and example of a tarring and feathering done to John Malcom a British officer in Boston.
Tarring and feathering was a way of protesting, tourture and humiliation toward an individual. This would involve pouring extremely hot tar all over the body and throwing feathers on them,
John Malcom was made a example of the protest of the colonist agianst the taxing of the British.
This poem was written by a American colonist praising the "Indians" for destroying the tea and the reasoning behind it.
The American colonist where responisble for dumping tea in the Boston harbor, some dressed as Indians to disguise there identity.
This poem was written to express the bravery behind the ones who decided to protest the taxes by dumping the tea into the harbor. Although it was done for good intent, this caused backlash from the British governemnt.
On December 16 of 1773, 340 chest of tea were destroyed and dumped into the Boston harbor.
The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the American colonist on the taxes being input from the Boston govenrment.
The British government retaleated with the Intolerable Acts, which was put in place as punishment for the "disloyalty" for the Boston Tea party.
