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The aim is to explore how the Whiteboys engaged with and adapted existing forms of legal violence within their colonial context.

‘Doing their Mock Justice there’: The Whiteboys, the British Legal System and a Transatlantic Language of Violence

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The aim is to explore how the Whiteboys engaged with and adapted existing forms of legal violence within their colonial context.
Examined the historical context of the Whiteboys and similar groups like the Paxton Boys and the Black Boys.
Analyzed the use of violence in the legal system and community traditions of revelry.
Discussed the interactions between extralegal groups and state reactions in a transatlantic framework.
Identified a tradition of violence in the legal system that influenced the Whiteboys' actions.
Noted that both the Whiteboys and British authorities employed a shared vocabulary of violence, characterized by pageantry.
Highlighted the state’s eventual resort to legal violence in response to the Whiteboys.

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Demonstrates how the Whiteboys adapted legal violence in colonial contexts, indicating a shared violent vocabulary with the state.

Sarah F. Donovan (2026) studied this question.

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