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Oneida Community

Oneida Community. By: Morgan Runkel. John Humphrey Noyes. Creator of Oneida Community Lasted 33 years ( 1848-1880) It challenged social views on property ownership, gender roles, child-rearing practices, monogamous marriage, and work Could not believe that he was a sinner.

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Oneida Community

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  1. Oneida Community By: Morgan Runkel

  2. John Humphrey Noyes • Creator of Oneida Community • Lasted 33 years (1848-1880) • It challenged social views on property ownership, gender roles, child-rearing practices, monogamous marriage, and work • Could not believe that he was a sinner • Believed in social and personal perfection • Vigorous health • Abandonment of yourself for the good of the whole • Long-life learning • Believed in Equality of the sexes • Married Harriet Holton because he thought it would advance the work with God that he was engaged in

  3. Oneida Community • Became one of the most impressive manufacturing companies of the 20th Century. • Had a 93,000 square foot mansion that held 300 members • Ideology that the interest of one member became the interest of all • Called themselves Perfectionists • Replaced the small unit of home and family for the larger unit of one group-family and group-family life

  4. Oneida Community Cont. • Founded in Oneida, New York in 1848 • In 1876 Noyes tried to hand over the Community to his son, Dr. Theodore Noyes, who was an agnostic • Being agnostic was bad • Ran the Community with a tight fist which was resented by the people • Noyes had to come back from Wallingford, where he was living, to sort things out • In 1881 the Oneida Community, Limited was created and the Oneida Community was abandoned

  5. Works Cited "History of Community.” 2009. BizRate.com. 17 Mar. 2009 <http://www.oneida.com/ about-oneida_history-of-community/>. "Oneida Community Mansion House A Living Museum." Oneida Community Mansion House A National Historic Landmark. 17 Mar. 2009 <http://www.oneidacommunity.org/index.html>. "The Oneida Community." New York History Net. 20 Feb. 2008. 17 Mar. 2009 <http://www.nyhistory.com/central/oneida.htm>.

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