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Oneida stirpiculture
Eugenic experiments in 19th-century United States
Oneida stirpiculture
The stirpiculture experiment at the Oneida Community (a Christian perfectionist commune near Oneida, New York) was the first "positive" eugenics experiment in American history, resulting in the planned conception, birth, and rearing of 58 children, bred from selected members of the Oneida Community. The experiment lasted from 1869–1879, notably about two decades before Francis Galton would coin the term "eugenics" and the emergence of eugenics as a practice and popular social movement in America in the 1900s. The Oneida stirpiculture experiment was largely ignored or dismissed by those later eugenicists because of its "context in a socially subversive Christian environment." The term stirpiculture was used by John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, to refer to his system of eugenics, or the breeding of humans to achieve desired perfections within the species. Noyes derived stirpiculture from the Latin word "stirps", which means "stock, stem, or root" (Carden). It has been...
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