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The Shakers and the book "The Great Divorce"...
The Shakers and the book "The Great Divorce"...
Item # 600005
March 29, 1817
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, March 29, 1817 Certainly the most notable content is a report headed: "Legislature Of New York...An Act Concerning the Shakers".
This deals with the event featured on many websites, and more recently in Ilyon Woos's 2010 book "The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times".
As detailed in a website, this was about the harrowing tale of Eunice Chapman's fight to reclaim her three children from the Shakers, when her estranged, alcoholic husband James took them away in 1814 to live with the celibate sect. Left on her own with no money and few resources, Chapman managed to survive through an abundance of charisma and a natural gift for storytelling, both of which would become crucial weapons in her five-year struggle to gain custody. It was a fight that went all the way to the New York state Legislature and was a touchstone for national debate.
Sixteen pages, 6 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches, great condition.As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
Category: Pre-Civil War
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