Oneida Community: The Breakup, 1876-1881 (A York State book)
by Constance Robertson
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In this first detailed examination of the breakup of upstate New York's Oneida Community, which was for more than thirty years a most successful experiment in communal living, Mrs. Robertson traces the strands of dissent and dissolution as reported in the members' own writings. Extracts from extensive private diaries, journals, letters between members of the old Community, and files from the Community's archives thought lost, provide a unique collection of sources previously inaccessible. show more They reveal the agony of indecision and disharmony felt by members as the years and the times took their toll of Bible Communism.--From publisher description. show lessTags
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