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The Kentucky Shakers

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In 1805, on the height of the period of early religious excitement in Kentucky, three members of the Shaker community in New Lebanon, New York, came to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to recruit converts. Soon there were little communities of Believers at Pleasant Hill in Mercer County and at South Union in Logan County. These settlements survived into the twentieth century as centers of worship and communal life; the buildings the Shakers erected here and plenty of in their tools and artifacts remain to delight the eye nowadays. But it’s the life of the Shakers in addition to the monuments they left that Julia Neal explores. The use of the detailed journals and other records kept at both communities, she recounts the early struggles against poverty and persecution, the high hopes of the 1850s when the Shaker idea of communal life gave the impression to have borne fruit at last, and the hardship and violence of Civil War and Reconstruction days, from which the Kentucky Shakers were never to recuperate. This absorbing account of the Shakers at Pleasant Hill and South Union is, like such a lot else associated with the Shakers, simple, functional, and beautiful.

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