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The Shakers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2021

Sibyl R. Heim
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The Shaker movement in this country as a socio-religious separatist venture, was representative of the character and growth of America. The single minded community, devoted to a particular ideal, reflects a major aspect of America's early social character. The various religious communities, whether Quaker, Shaker, Brook Farm, transcendental or other, were manifestations of a spirit which was fostered by conditions in a new world.

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , April 1970 , pp. 27 - 39
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Copyright © Committee on Research in Dance 1970

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This essay was written by Sibyl Heim as a term paper in a course on the History of Dance with Walter Sorell.

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