Touring Shaker country Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Christian monastic denomination
About Touring Shaker country
The United Society of Believers, known as Shaking Quakers, or simply as Shakers, are aChristiansect that dates to the middle of the 18th century. The movement found critical mass around 1772 inManchester, England under the leadership of "Mother" Ann Lee, who was considered the Second Coming of Christ in female form. A radical sect, they lived celibate lives, forsaking marriage and childbirth, treating men and women as equals and bringing up adopted children as a community. In 1774 Lee emigrated with a small group of followers to England's North American colonies to escape persecution in England. Being both pacifist and English, the move to the rebellious American colonies was ill-timed, bringing new rounds of persecution upon the Shakers in their new land. The tide turned for the Shakers b
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