A bruised idealist
Subtitle: David Lamson, Hopedale and the Shakers : reprinting the known corpus of works by David Lamson, including Two years' experience among the Shakers, and articles from The practical Christian
By: compiled by Peter Hoehnle
Contributors: Lamson, David R. (David Rich), 1806-1886
Series: American communal societies series -- no. 3
Publisher: Richard W. Couper Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Clinton, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780979644870
Subjects: Controversial literature; Social life and customs; Hopedale Community; Shakers; Ex-church members; Biography; History
Other titles: David Lamson, Hopedale and the Shakers
Description: "In 1848, David R. Lamson published his account of the Hancock Shaker Village community, Two years' experience among the Shakers. Although written by a man who had turned against the Shaker community in which he had once lived, Lamson's book presents accurate detail about life in a community at the height of the Shaker movement. This reprinting of Lamson's classic account includes a biographical essay about this enigmatic Jacksonian era reformer and his experiences, both with the Shakers and the Hopedale Community, as well as biographical information on all of the individuals mentioned in his landmark Shaker account."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A bruised idealist : David Rich Lamson (1806-1886); title: Two years' experience among the Shakers; title: Appendices. Earthly and heavenly wisdom ; A word introductory ; Non-resistance ; Communities (editorial by Adin Ballou) ; Excommunication, no. 1 ; Excommunication, no. 2 ; The excommunication correction ; Communities ; Reorganization of society ; David R. Lamson (editorial by George Stacy) ; List of individuals mentioned in Two years' experience among the Shakers.