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Founded in 1747, in Manchester, England, from a group of dissenting Quakers. Only a handful of Shakers came to North America in 1774. The "Shaking Quakers" reached fruition after settlement in America, won many converts, and their faith spread to include roughly 6,000 members just before the Civil War. "Mother" Ann Lee, the English-born leader of the Shakers, began her public ministry in America in 1780.
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