History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1816 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Shakers
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The idea
Ann Lee emigrated to New York in the seventeen seventies after a religious awakening convinced her that she was mother in Christ.
In practice
Her teaching that God was both male and female, Jesus embodying one side and Mother Ann the other.
Where people slip
To Shakers she represented the completion of divine revelation and the beginning of the millennium on earth.
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