413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
The History of Literature
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The Tarring and Feathering Allegedly Happened in January of 18 Forty One
A lot of our history and the evidence gathering from this incident came many years afterward. And it came after whitman was well known as a licentious and probably gay poet. So people hunting for evidence may have had that in mind too, might have colored these recollections,. or rumors that were being passed along in this town. Another reason to doubt this story is that the tarring and feathering allegedly happened in january of 18 forty one.
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