Restoring Shakertown

by Thomas Parrish

Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, articulated a vision of a community that embraced sacrifice over the needs of the individual; the result was one of the most successful utopian experiments of nineteenth-century America. The Shakers, an idealistic offshoot of the ascetic Quaker religion, grew to as many as six thousand members in nineteen communities reaching from New England to the Midwest. Lee's experiment, focused mainly on simplicity, celibate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081312364X
• ISBN13: 9780813123646
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher