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Others were subjected to violence. On August 19, 1918, John Meints, a German-American farmer suspected of disloyalty, was kidnapped from his home near Luverne, Minnesota, by nativist vigilantes and driven to the South Dakota border. In a gruesome echo of the American Revolution, Meints was tarred and feathered by his captors and threatened with death if he returned to Minnesota. The vigilantes were subsequently acquitted of wrongdoing. These photographs are some of the only images of a victim of tarring and feathering. |