Shaker light

SHAKER lIGHTrecounts the harrowing experineces of the English Mystic Ann Lee and her small sect during the months following their arrival in America to found the Shaker religion. This book continues Ann Lee's life after the earlier THE GIFT TO BE SIMPLE (Liveright, 1975). The vicissitudes of survival, the first colony, and the eventual death of Mother Ann at the hands of bigoted mobs provide the framework for the book