The "Paying the Exciseman" image is portraying a royal taxman who has been tarred and feathered having tea poured down his throat by a group of Boston colonists. The attackers, Boston colonists, appear to be portrayed as enjoying themselves and the humiliation they are causing to the royal taxman. The royal taxman appears to be extremely humiliated by what is happening and trying to get away. The ships are representations of the Boston Tea Party while the Liberty Tree represents hanging of tax collectors and the dislike of the Stamp Act. The "Paying the Exciseman" image was taken during an era when the Briton felts that the colonists were not worth equal status. After the enactment of the Revenue Act, the Currency Act, and the Quartering Act in the American colonies the protests by the...