Question

Why did the farmers of East Kent destroyed their own threshing machine?

Answer 1

Answer:

Why did farmers in East Kent destroy their own threshing machines? Threshing machines were opposed by the poor in England because they decreased the employment opportunities of workmen during harvest-time. ... Later, they were hired on wages and only during harvest-time.

Answer 2

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The first threshing machine was destroyed on Saturday night, 28 August 1830 and, by the third week of October, more than 100 threshing machines had been destroyed in East Kent. As well as attacking the popularly hated threshing machines, which displaced workers, the protesters rioted over low wages and required tithes, destroying workhouses and tithe barns associated with their oppression. They also burned ricks and maimed cows ..