Who was captain swing? What did the name symbolise or represent?
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- 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 a mythic name used in letters addressed to landowners to break their threshing machines.
- The landlords were alarmed because they were attacked by armed labourers at night and also because their farm houses were put on fire. Most of the landlords destroyed threshing machines.
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