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South Union Messenger (April 1979), Kentucky Library Research Collections
South Union Messenger (April 1979), Kentucky Library Research Collections
South Union Messenger
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Pearce, James Anderson, 1777-1825 (Sc 1365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearce, James Anderson, 1777-1825 (Sc 1365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1365. Letter, 6 August 1813, written by James A. Pearce, Louisville, Kentucky, to Armistead Morehead, Russellville, Kentucky, regarding land that Pearce had sold to the South Union Shaker Society in Logan County, Kentucky. Also data from Shaker Record "A" and a local history about this transaction.
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.
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
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 …