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The Economic Development Of The South Union Shaker Colony 1807-1861, John M. Keith Jr.
The Economic Development Of The South Union Shaker Colony 1807-1861, John M. Keith Jr.
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The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, commonly called Shakers, are a most unique communistic group in American history. Their society had an economic as well as a religious base. Because of this entwining relationship, the Shakers outlived all other communistic societies in the United States.
From the beginning the Shakers placed great emphasis on the economic aspects of their communal society and this emphasis played a paramount role in many of their major decisions. In effect their theory was “Mine is thine and thine is mine.” Taking their beliefs from this statement, together with the preaching of …