[Shaker Music] Biblical Recitation

[Shaker Music]

Biblical Recitation

[Canterbury]: Shaker Village. [1855]. 4 pp. 2 column text, 12 lines of music. 8vo, single sheet, folded. Moderate wear, overall fine. Richmond 76.

"From the date of their arrival in New York harbor from England on August 6, 1774, members of this religious communal society, founded and originally led by Ann Lee, were a visible, and at times, controversial minority group. Their religion, which embodied the notions of obedience, confession and celibacy; their modes of religious worship, including the frenetic dance that led to their being called “shaking Quakers,” and their withdrawal from the world, as represented by their refusal to bear arms and to take oaths, provoked the antagonism of many of their New England neighbors who viewed the Shakers as heretics and extremists." - A Guide to Shaker Manuscripts in the Library of the Western Reserve Historical Society. Kermit J. Pike, comp. (Cleveland: The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1974. pp.ix-x) (6637)

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