“An Original Portrait of Captain Swing,” 1830. Captain Swing was an invented revolutionary who becam
“An Original Portrait of Captain Swing,” 1830. Captain Swing was an invented revolutionary who became the embodiment of the anger of British agricultural workers in the early 1800s. As workers were displaced by enclosure (the privatization of land) and new machines, there was a wave of arson and sabotage that was often attributed to “Captain Swing.” -- source link
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