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Excellent introduction to the Shakers and one constant of their lives in the 19th Century: legal challenges to their rules and policies. Ms. Woo gives us a fuller and far less known aspect if Shaker life, "warts and all."
M. Stephen Miller
The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times