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Pages from the Past—Deaf-Mutia: Responses to Alienation by the Deaf in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 142, Number 5, December 1997
- pp. 363-367
- 10.1353/aad.2012.0331
- Article
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The development of the deaf community in the mid-nineteenth century was intimately linked to schooling. Although a matrix of variables contributed, a major factor underlying the community's enduring strength was the alienation suffered by deaf persons in society. To counter this alienation, proposals emerged throughout the nineteenth century for the formation of a separate deaf state. The most significant of these was the plan of Flournoy in the late 1850s.