The American Shakers, 1774-2018, Verging on Extinction: A Miscellany of Their History and Estimations of Their Would-Be

by H. G. Hastings-Duffield

Overview

After the reported deaths of the final two Shaker sisters, only one bona fide Shaker exists--Brother Arnold Hadd of the Sabbathday Lake community, New Gloucester, ME. My thesis is a documentation of how Shakers have been perceived and delineated in the imaginative literature (fiction) by non-Shaker authors of "the world," to use the Shaker patois, from CE 1829–2018. I fancy my book to be a tribute to the Shaker Society since I lay blame on such writers for their failure to tell the truth (facts) about the most successful utopian society in American history. Commonly, the writers are bigots and denigrate the Society because its principles and practices differ from that of the authors.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161553817
Publisher:	Covenant Books
Publication date:	07/18/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Holley Duffield is professor emeritus of Central Michigan University, where he taught writing, literature, and literary aesthetics for thirty years. He has published twenty-one books on American social matters, religion, and several novels. He is a scholar of the American Shakers and founded The Society of Shaker Studies and was editor of The Journal of Shaker Studies. He also is a professional cabinetmaker and stained glass artist.
Professor Duffield was born in West Virginia, moved to Michigan with his family in 1942, is a US Army veteran, moved to Georgia in 2006, now lives in Sault Ste. Marie, MI. He continues to read, write, and think each day. Among other current activities, he is researching the Amish as they are delineated in imaginative literature by non-Amish authors—a study similar to the one he has just completed regarding the American Shakers, titled The American Shakers (1774–2018): Verging on Extinction to be published in 2018.