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From 1848 to 1881, the Oneida Community resided just outside Oneida, NY. Founded by extremely religious preacher John Humphrey Noyes, the community strived to lead its life parallel to the ideals of Perfectionism, in which its member \u201cpersevered in a course of self-improvement, overcoming many obstacles.\u201d1<\/sup><\/a> Among some of Noyes’s greater ideals, he lived to help the anti-slavery cause. In The Hand-book of Oneida Community, <\/i>Noyes states, \u201cMy heart was greatly engaged in [anti-slavery] work. At Andover I had become interested in the Anti-Slavery cause, and soon after I went to New Haven I took part, with a few pioneer abolitionists, in the formation of one of the earliest Anti-Slavery Societies in the country.\u201d2<\/sup><\/a> Certainly J. H. Noyes invigorated the members of his community to think in the same way.<\/p>\n Yet, in the copy of the Oneida Circular Newspaper printed on April 15, 1872, author H W B wrote a review when a group of nine African-American singer from Fisk University, called Fisk Jubilee Singers, came to perform at Oneida. H W B and quoted author Theo F. Seward, in this article, use words, such as pathetic, unfortunates, wholly untutored minds, and phrases like \u201cAs to the words which accompany their songs, they are even more broken and irregular than is the music,\u201d and \u201cThe reason for [their success] cannot apparently be traced to the superior talent of the singer themselves\u201d as the author only believes that three of four of them have nice voices, to describe the Fisk Jubilee Singers.3<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n How, then, can one say that the Oneida community was really built of J. H. Noyes’s fascination of the anti-slavery movement? It seems that the community members have a problem with allowing the African-American singers to be on a level ground with whites. As mentioned before, the author stated that the students had \u201cwholly untutored minds,\u201d although they all studying at Fisk University. I believe that shows that the Oneida Community had fallen away from its markers original ideals.<\/p>\n 1<\/a> Oneida Community, <\/span><\/span><\/span>Hand-book of the Oneida Community: With a Sketch of Its Founder, and an Outline of Its Constitution and Doctrines.<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/i>(<\/span><\/span><\/span>Wallingford, Conn. : Office of the Circular, Wallingford Community, 1867) 8<\/span><\/span><\/span> .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n 2<\/a> Ibid., 7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 3<\/a>\u00a0H, W. B. “The Jubilee Singers.”\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Oneida Circular (1871-1876)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>9, no. 16 (Apr 15, 1872): 126. <\/span><\/span><\/span>http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/docview\/137675405?accountid=351.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From 1848 to 1881, the Oneida Community resided just outside Oneida, NY. Founded by extremely religious preacher John Humphrey Noyes, the community strived to lead its life parallel to the ideals of Perfectionism, in which its member \u201cpersevered … Continue reading