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The Shakers are one of the few success stories resulting from the proliferation of communitarian and millenarian groups in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe and America. In America the Shakers were nineteenth-century's largest and best-known communal utopian society. By 1840, nearly 6,000 celibate Brothers and Sisters lived and worked in 18 communities from Maine to Kentucky. The Shakers were famous for their unusual way of life, for the excellence and simplicity of their work, and for the dance worship that gave them their name.
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