The Captain Swing Riots began in east Kent in the summer of 1830 with agricultural labourers destroying threshing machines that displaced winter work. The movement spread across southern England as labourers demanded higher wages and an end to machinery. Fires and riots accompanied machine-breaking across Kent through the autumn.
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