“I had heard about black Quakers because of their involvement with the Underground Railroad and abolition, but it hadn’t occurred to me that there might be black Shakers,” Wilson said in a recent interview. He was curious about how a Shaker community would function in an urban environment, how Shaker worship might shift in different communities, and how Rebecca Jackson’s life might have looked in comparison to that of Mother Ann Lee, who brought the sect from England to the United States.’
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