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How Did The Shakers Attempt To Create A Utopian Society

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Utopian movements centered their efforts on creating a perfect new social order, Inspired by ideals to improve mankind and end social conflict, during this period a few people attempted to create utopian communities based on cooperation and communism. The Brook Farm community was an intellectual experiment that inspired others to break out. The Shakers sought perfection of humanity in religion, stressing equality of the sexes and celibacy. Then there was the utopian community of New Harmony, they tried to create a perfect society through communal work and property however, they the society was doomed to fail as well. Finally, the Cult of Domesticity sought to perfect family life through the maintaining a home run by a moral, domestically skilled
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