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14-593: Vigilance committee formed to provide protection against marauders [REDACTED] This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:   "Anti Horse Thief Association"  –  news   · newspapers   · books   · scholar   · JSTOR ( April 2008 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) The Anti Horse Thief Association

28-402: Is "the extralegal prevention, investigation, or punishment of offenses." The definition has three components: Other scholars have defined "collective vigilantism" as "group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community." Les Johnston argues that vigilantism has six necessary components: Vigilantism and the vigilante ethos existed long before the word vigilante was introduced into

42-407: Is a group of private citizens who take it upon themselves to administer law and order or exercise power in places where they consider the governmental structures or actions inadequate. Prominent historical examples of vigilance committees engaged in forms of vigilantism include abolitionist committees who, beginning in the 1830s, worked to free enslaved people and aid fugitive slaves, in violation of

56-415: The 1856 trial of Charles Cora ( Belle Cora 's husband) and James Casey. Vigilantism A vigilante is a person who practices or partakes in vigilantism, or undertakes public safety and retributive justice without commission. The term is borrowed from Italian vigilante , which means 'sentinel' or 'watcher', from Latin vigilāns . According to political scientist Regina Bateson, vigilantism

70-643: The American Civil War Missouri in the American Civil War American frontier Organizations established in 1859 1859 establishments in Kansas Territory Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles needing additional references from April 2008 All articles needing additional references Vigilance committee A vigilance committee

84-552: The English language. There are conceptual parallels between the medieval aristocratic custom of private war or vendetta and the modern vigilante philosophy. Elements of the concept of vigilantism can be found in the biblical account in Genesis 34 of the abduction and rape (or, by some interpretations, seduction) of Dinah , the daughter of Jacob , in the Canaanite city of Shechem by

98-847: The North to assist the escaped enslaved people. For example, Gerrit Smith called the Fugitive Slave Convention of 1850 "on behalf of the New York State Vigilance Committee." Many such committees were integral parts of the Underground Railroad . In the Western United States , before and after the Civil War , various vigilance committees formed with the stated purpose of maintaining law and order and administer summary justice where governmental law enforcement

112-555: The enjoyment of their lives and liberties." The abolitionist New York Committee of Vigilance and Vigilant Committee of Philadelphia were also established in the 1830s and assisted fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad . Between 1850 and 1860, following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 , professional bounty hunters began swarming through Northern states searching for missing enslaved people . In response, vigilance committees were set up in several places in

126-656: The eponymous son of the ruler, and the violent reaction of her brothers Simeon and Levi , who slew all of the males of the city in revenge, rescued their sister and plundered Shechem. When Jacob protested that their actions might bring trouble upon him and his family, the brothers replied "Should he [i.e., Shechem] treat our sister as a harlot?" In the Western literary and cultural tradition, characteristics of vigilantism have often been vested in folkloric heroes and outlaws (e.g., Robin Hood ). During medieval times, punishment of felons

140-462: The laws at the time. However, many other vigilance committees were explicitly grounded in racial prejudice and xenophobia, administering extrajudicial punishment to abolitionists or members of minority groups. Abolitionists met at Faneuil Hall in the 1830s and formed the Committee of Vigilance and Safety to "take all measures that they shall deem expedient to protect the colored people of this city in

154-773: The original name. See also [ edit ] Bentonville Anti-Horse Thief Society The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves Stolen Horse International References [ edit ] "Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc." (1912) External links [ edit ] Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Anti-Horse Thief Association Anti Horse Thief Association The Horse Thief Detectives Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anti_Horse_Thief_Association&oldid=1257609027 " Categories : American vigilantes Kansas in

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168-550: Was a vigilance committee , organized at Fort Scott, Kansas , in 1859 to provide protection against marauders thriving on border warfare. It resembled other vigilance societies in organization and methods, although it did not share some of the shadier tactics of other vigilance committees and members of the Regulators . It achieved great success in apprehending offenders over a wide area. Though it initially focused on horse theft, it diversified into other areas while still retaining

182-703: Was inadequate. In reality, those high in the social hierarchy often used them to attack maligned groups, including recent immigrants and racial or ethnic groups. In newly settled areas, vigilance committees promised security and mediated land disputes. In ranching areas, they ruled on ranch boundaries, registered brands, and protected cattle and horses. In the mining districts, they defended claims, settled claim disputes, and attempted to protect miners and other residents. In California , some residents formed vigilance committees to take control of officials whom they considered to be corrupt. This occurred in San Francisco during

196-809: Was sometimes exercised by such secret societies as the courts of the Vehm ( cf. the medieval Sardinian Gamurra later become Barracelli , the Sicilian Vendicatori and the Beati Paoli ), a type of early vigilante organization, which became extremely powerful in Westphalian Germany during the 15th century. In some regions of Mexico, mainly in the state of Michoacan , people affected by criminal groups like Los Zetas and La Familia Michoacana , created vigilante groups called Grupos de autodefensa comunitaria in 2013. Their most notorious leader Hipólito Mora ,

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