Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community

Title: Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community Author: Spencer Klaw ISBN: 9780140239300 Publisher: Penguin Books Published: 1994 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Good Good condition American History 1636313 Publisher Description: Without Sin chronicles the rise and fall of nineteenth-century America's most succesful experiment in Utopian living: New York's Oneida Community (1848-1880). Founded by the charismatic Christian Perfectioniost John Humphrey Noyes, this remarkable society flourished for more than thirty years as a unique world where property was shared, men and women were equals, sex was free and open, work was to be joyous, and pleasure was felt to be "the very business that God set Adam and Eve about."