Question

Which of the following options refers to Captain Swing?

• A. Name of the Captain of a Ship
• B. Name of the army Captain under The British
• C. A mythical name which was used to threaten landlords by sending threatening letters.
• D. Name of the leader who organised peasants riots against threshing machines.

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

A mythical name which was used to threaten landlords by sending threatening letters.

"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.