Editing Tarring and feathering (section)

== 19th century ==
In 1851, Thomas Paul Smith, a 24-year-old [[African Americans|African-American]] from Boston, outspoken in his opposition to school desegregation, was tarred and feathered by a group of African-American Bostonians opposed to segregation.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Moss |first=Hilary |title=The Tarring and Feathering of Thomas Paul Smith: Common Schools, Revolutionary Memory, and the Crisis of Black Citizenship in Antebellum Boston |journal=New England Quarterly |volume=80 |issue=2 |pages=218–241 |date=June 2007 |s2cid=57569227 |doi=10.1162/tneq.2007.80.2.218}}</ref>

Also in 1851, a [[Know-Nothing]] mob in [[Ellsworth, Maine]], tarred and feathered Swiss-born [[Jesuit]] priest, Father [[John Bapst]], in the midst of a local controversy over religious education in grammar schools. Bapst fled Ellsworth to settle in nearby [[Bangor, Maine]], where there was a large [[Irish-Catholic]] community, and a local high school there is named for him.<ref>{{CathEncy|id=02258a|title=John Bapst|first=Thomas|last=Campbell|access-date=December 17, 2008}}</ref>

In 1872, schoolteacher [[Kelsey Outrage|Charles G. Kelsey]] was tarred and feathered for pursuing a young woman from a wealthy family. He was murdered shortly after in mysterious circumstances. His assailants were acquitted of riot and assault and never brought to trial for murder.