The Shakers were celibate, they did not marry or bear children, yet theirs is the most enduring religious experiment in American history. Seventy-five years before the emancipation of the slaves ...

The Shakers were a radical Christian group known for their ecstatic worship, communal living, and strict celibacy. Founded by Mother Ann Lee in the 18th century, they believed she was the second ...

Little is known of the early life of Rebecca Cox Jackson, a black woman who became an eldress in the Shaker religion and founded a Shaker community in Philadelphia. Rebecca was born in 1795 to a ...

It’s been over a decade since a relatively fringe 1700s religious sect—the Shakers—found unlikely ubiquity in the modern ...