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  1. One of a group of people involved in
  2. machine-wrecking riots in N England 1811-16.
  3. The organizer of the Luddites was referred to
  4. as General Ludd, but may not have existed.
  5. Many Luddites were hanged or transported to
  6. penal colonies, such as Australia. The
  7. movement, which began in Nottinghamshire and
  8. spread to Lancashire, Cheshire, Derbyshire,
  9. Leicestershire, and Yorkshire, was primarily
  10. a revolt against the unemployment caused by
  11. the introduction of machines in the
  12. Industrial Revolution.
  13.