- Shakers - Wikipedia
External and internal societal changes in the mid- and late 19th century resulted in the thinning of the Shaker community as members left or died with few converts to the faith to replace them By 1920, there were only 12 Shaker communities remaining in the United States
- Who are the Shakers? - Enfield Shaker Museum
The Shakers are a small Protestant religious denomination founded in Manchester, England in the mid-1700’s as a dissident group of the Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Shakers - Wikiwand
Not to be confused with Quakers The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, are a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded c 1747 in England and then organized in the United States in the 1780s
- History of the Shakers - U. S. National Park Service
The “Shaking Quakers,” or Shakers, split from mainstream Quakerism in 1747 after being heavily influenced by Camisard preaching The Shakers developed along their own lines, forming into a society with Jane and James Wardley as their leaders
- Shaker communities - Wikipedia
The Shakers left England for the English colonies in North America in 1774 As they gained converts, the Shakers established numerous communities in the late-18th century through the entire 19th century
- Shakers – A Utopian Community: Founded In U. S. 1776
The Shaker utopian community, or the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearance, is the quintessential commune to which all other utopian communities are compared The Shakers, named after their ecstatic dancing as worship, are the longest-lived American utopian experiment
- Who Are They - Shaker Pedia
Who are the Shakers ? The Shakers, a Protestant religious sect officially called The United Society of Believers, originated in Manchester, England in 1747
- History of the Shakers - Shaker Heritage Society
The founder of the Shakers, Ann Lee, was a blacksmith’s daughter and a mill hand in Manchester, England Looking for a more personal and emotional religion than the official Church of England, in 1758 she joined a group called the Wardley Society that had left the Quakers
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