Part one of term paper
Graebner and Richards begin by asking questions about the cartoon (p. 149) of a Tory being tarred and feathered. The cartoon was obviously drawn by someone who supported because the faces of the men attacking the Tory look evil and demonic. This leads us to the two letters – one written by a Tory woman and the other by a rebel. Ann ...

Part two of term paper
... of the man in hopes to persuade her friend (Mrs. Lightbody) that the rebels are evil and inhumane. One could relate it to the propaganda used by many countries during wartime. The second letter by an unknown rebel was written about a year later and also describes the tar and feathering of a Tory man. His description is more of what I’ve always believed a tar and feathering to be: humiliating and a chance for the public to punish a person themselves. The rebel states that the man was st ...