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Article: Oneida Colony
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- Dictionary of American History
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ONEIDA COLONY
ONEIDA COLONY,
established in 1848 between Syracuse and Utica, in New York State, was America's most radical experiment in social and religious thinking. From literal concepts of perfectionism and Bible communism, the colony advanced into new forms of social relationships: economic communism, the rejection of monogamy for complex marriage, the practice of an elementary form of birth control (
coitus reservatus
), and the eugenic breeding of stirpicultural children. John Humphrey Noyes, leader of the group, was a capable and shrewd Yankee whose sincere primitive Christianity expressed itself in radically modern terms. His fellow workers, having experienced profound ...
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Article: ART FOLLOWS COMMUNITY; COLGATE SHOW DISPLAYS WORK FROM ONEIDA ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);
April 7, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... community was formed in 1848, when John Humphrey Noyes and his followers moved to this region ... Extras: Furniture created by John Humphrey Noyes II, son of the Oneida Community founder ... examines two pieces of artwork by John Humphrey Noyes II last month at the "Braidings and ...
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