PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Lucretia Mott, Shakers, American Colonization Society
12 Jul 2016
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Groups devoted to: abolition and resistance to abolition, temperance (prevention of making/selling alcohol, sabbath laws, prison reform, public education, improvement of working conditions for laborers, reorganization of society on cooperative basis, women"s rights. Most successful religious group with 5,000 members by 1840s. Men and women are equal, segregated except by worship, abstained from sexual relations. Observers claimed they spoke passionately, spawned the name shakers . John humphrey noyes preached that he and his followers had achieved moral perfection and were free from sin. In noyes" system of complex marriage, any man could propose sexual relations to any woman. By 1860s, only certain couples were allowed to procreate (early form of eugenics) Community did not last long after noyes was tried for adultery. Had its origins in north"s emerging middle-class culture and its emphasis on self-control. Founded in 1826, american temperance society tried to convince americans to stop drinking.
