Question

who was captain swing?what did the name represent

Answer 1

The poor farmers in England were not pleased with the introduction of threshing machines.
The poor farmers wrote threatening letters to the landlord who own threshing machines to destroy their (landlords')threshing machine as soon as possible.
The threatening letter was a mythic name .This name was used in the threatening letters

Answer 2

Captain Swing was the name appended to several threatening letters during the rural English Swing Riots of 1830, when labourers rioted over the introduction of new threshing machines and the loss of their livelihoods. Captain Swing was described as a hard-working tenant farmer driven to destition and despair by social and political change in the early 19th century..