Ann, the Word: The Story of Ann Lee, Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers, the Woman Clothed with the SunWhen she died in America at age forty-eight, having brought her faithful to a new land on the eve of the Revolution, she left behind a religious movement that was to have thousands of followers and become our most important and successful utopian community."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
Toad Lane | 3 |
Clothed with the Sun 3555 | 25 |
The House of Correction | 53 |
AMERICA | 73 |
The Mariah | 75 |
Niskeyuna | 99 |
The Dark Day | 129 |
The Journey to Harvard | 157 |
Black Guards | 205 |
Exasperating the Devil | 237 |
The Journey Back | 271 |
Beautiful Messenger | 307 |
Epilogue | 323 |
Notes | 337 |
Bibliographical Note | 359 |
Illustration Credits | 375 |
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