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The convicts transported on the Eleanor in February 1831 were not hardened criminals.
The men on board - impoverished agricultural labourers and rural craftsmen from the counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset - were transported because they were 'Swing rioters' - men who dared to demand a modest wage-increase and the preservation of winter work threatened by the threshing machine.
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