A Shaker Legacy
Subtitle: The Shaker Collection at the New York State Museum (New York State Museum Circular #63)
Publisher: The New York State Museum
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 55
ISBN-13: 9781555572112
First sentence: Founded at Manchester in England, in the industrializing turmoil of the mid-18th century by a small dissident group from the Society of Friends, the original "Believers" (as they were to call themselves) were soon known derisively as "Shaking Quakers" or "Shakers" (the latter an insult they never renounced and indeed accepted as a useful brief label), for the fervor and zeal associated with their ritual religious dance, which they based on biblical precedents.