The Shaker Adventure

viii, 319 pp. This is the story of one of the most remarkable religious and social experiments ever attempted. Shakerism began in England in a spirit of revolt against religious,economic, and social ills. This book describes the Shaker "experiment" from its early painful beginnings through the period of its greatest flowering-between 1825 and 1860-to its eventual decline. Bibliography, list of Shaker societies, and index follow text.