#swing riots

[gabri-el]

'meetings for the Promulgation of Mischievous and seditious doctrine [by] wicked and designed Individuals with Reform in their Mouths and Revolution in their Hearts [...] using every artifice both by speaking and writing to mislead and poison the Public mind..'.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

The state tries to restablish control during the violent Swing Riots in the 1830s which spead across the country in an attempt to end rural unemployment and establish a living wage.