<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> "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 destitution and despair by social and political change in the early nineteenth century . </P> <P> Popular protests by farm workers occurred across a wide swath of agricultural England, from Sussex in the south to Kent in the east, and they had a number of structural causes . The main targets for protesting crowds were landowners / landlords, whose threshing machines they destroyed or dismantled, and whom they petitioned for a rise in wages . They also demanded contributions of food, money, beer, or all three from their victims . Often they sought to enlist local parish officials and occasionally magistrates to raise levels of poor relief as well . Throughout England, 644 rioters were imprisoned, 505 transported to Australia, and 19 were executed . </P>

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