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Mother Ann Lee Group: The Shakers The shakers were a group like the quakers who trembled when they felt god's word moving through them. The only difference between the two was that the shakers believed sexual relations between men and woman were unholy. 1736-1784 Mother Ann Lee started out living in new England. She was born to a poor family. She was born unsure of her sexuality and through life struggled to find men. She wished to avoid marriage and stay single. Her dad forced her to marry a man by the name of Abraham Standley. They had eight children, four still births and the other four not living past the age of six. This traumatic experience put her over the edge. She abandon her marriage and went to join the shaker way of life. She fully believed that it was possible to remain holy by giving up sexual relations. She taught this to many followers as well. She was procescuted many times for her beliefs, as she was not in America where people have religious freedom. So in 1774 she went over to America along with much of her family. She landed in New York and stayed there for two years. Then she decided to go on an extensive journey to convert people in Connecticut and Massachusetts. They were met by many violent mobs. Soon Mother Ann Lee was very fragile and laid down to die on September 8, 1784. Goals: Convert people to the shakers prove that people can be holy without sexual relations separate males and females, to avoid temptations make male and female equal

She was successful in her goals of converting many people. She was so important to the Shaker group that they considered her Jesus's counterpart. She also caused a ten year period of revelations that continued after her death. This was called the "Era of Manifestations" also referred to as Mother Ann Lee's work.

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Tipton, Meredyth. "Mother Ann Lee." __George Town College__. 2 Oct. 2008 <http://http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his338/students/mtipton/annlee.h