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you have sources tying abolitionists working on the underground railroad to violent vigilante groups? Are you going to include every group with "vigilance" in its name? Why? I'm not sure a separate list of vigilante groups wouldn't be a better way to handle this and have the broader subjects be disambiguated as I was doing before being reverted.
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Western (American) vigilante groups. Abolitionists aiding the underground railroad don't fit with that scope. The scope is now broadened but raises the concern of grouping unrelated entities apart from their names into a single article. Do
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the primary topic of vigilance commitee is anti-slavery abolitionist societies along the underground railroad. The
Western version isn't related except that they have the same name and both are organized groups of citizens taking the law into their own hands. If anything, the western version should
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If you define a vigilance committee as a violent group of vigilantes these groups don't fit. As you reverted my split I refined the scope of the article. Hopefully this solution works for you in which case the subject can be treated more inclusively and a merge is warranted. These issues have been
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The material about it being a violent group of vigilantes is secondary and should be de-emphasized or removed. The primary use of the term is in the underground railroad. The reason why they were a "vigilance committee" is because they were taking the law into their own hands and what they were
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be split into a separate article with parentheses to explain the different situation, but this is an extremely minor usage compared to the vast majority of references being to abolitionism.
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As I'm trying to explain, "vigilance committee" and "committee of vigilance" are the same term. Like the latter is just an old-timey way to say the former. The creator doesn't
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doing, to help free fugitive slaves, was illegal since technically at the time, the law said slaves were property of their owners. Please read Eric Foner's excellent book.
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