write about the captain swing riots fast plzz
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# The Swing Riots were a widespread uprising in 1830 by agricultural workers .
# It began with their destruction of threshing machines in the Elham Valley.
# The protesters rioted over low wages and required tithes, destroying workhouses etc.
# The rioters directed their anger at the tithe system ,Anglican Church; the Poor Law guardians.
# In parliament Lord Carnarvon had said that the English labourer was reduced to a plight more abject than that of any race in Europe.
# The name "Swing Riots" was derived from Captain Swing, the fictitious name often signed to the threatening letters .
# Originally the disturbances were thought to be mainly a southern and East Anglian phenomenon
# only one person is recorded as having been killed during the riots, and that was one of the rioters by the action of a soldier or farmer
The Swing Riots were a widespread uprising in 1830 by agricultural workers in southern and eastern England, in protest of agricultural mechanisation and other harsh conditions. It began with their destruction of threshing machines in the Elham Valley area of East Kent in the summer of 1830, and by early December had spread throughout the whole of southern England and East Anglia.