Ellen Wayland-Smith
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called "complex marriage," an elaborate system of free love where sexual relations with multiple partners...