A Mighty Change: An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816-1864

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INDEX abolition, 109 ‘‘Advantages and Disadvantages of the Use of Signs’’ (Carlin), 94–100 African Americans, viii–ix Booth and, viii, 183n Flournoy and, viii, 182–83, 183n, 205, 205n Jewel and, viii, 118, 126, 126n, 127n slavery and, 152n, 157n, 182–83, 183n, 193n, 205, 205n After a Long Cruise (Carlin), 92 Alexander I, czar of Russia, 27n American Annals of Education, viii, xx American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, 39, 90, 109, 129 calls for National Deaf-Mute College in, 100–106, 212–13 deaf commonwealth debate in, 161–211 American Asylum for the Deaf, xii, xvi–xix, xxx, 3, 64n, 113, 211, 213, 224 Clerc and, 4, 215 1850 grand reunion and, 139–52 Gallaudet monument and, 153–60 land grant to, 4, 31, 150, 161, 165– 66, 184n, 185–86, 210 American Colonization Society, 201 American Notes (Dickens), 96n 229 American Sign Language (ASL), xi, xvii–xviii, 142n Burnet on, 51, 51n, 55n, 69n deaf authors and, xxiii–xxiv, xxvii– xviii fingerspelling and, 97, 97n, 100, 100n intelligence and, xix–xx Jewel and, 118, 119 privileging of English over, 98n, 171n public perception of, xix, 132n, 133n universality and, 12n, 51n See also sign language Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 168n Anamosa Eureka (newspaper), 107, 109 Anthon, Charles, 101, 101n Aristotle, xix, 224 articulation, 24, 24n, 60–63, 132 Asten, Abraham, 32 Atlantic Monthly, 130, 183 Backus, Levi, xxi Bakhtin, Mikhail, xxviii Barnard, Frederick A. P., vii, xix–xx, xxv, 20n Clerc letter to, 20–22 230 INDEX Barnes, William, 104, 104n Batterson, James, 154 Baynton, Douglas, xxxii, 12n Belisarius, 166, 166n Bell, Alexander Graham, 130 ‘‘Belle Missouri’’ (Searing), 129–30, 134–35 Berthier, Jean-Ferdinand, 104, 105n, 220 Bible, xxv, 17, 76 Carlin on, 102, 158, 220, 223 Spofford and, 143–44, 144n–45n See also Elijah; Jesus Christ; Lazarus; Sanballat blindness, 40–41, 107, 124–25, 126– 27, 166, 166n, 167. See also deafblind people ‘‘Blue-Eyed Maid, The’’ (Nack), 32 Boardman, Eliza. See Clerc, Eliza Boardman Bolling, William, xxix Booth, Edmund, viii, xii, xxi abolitionism and, 109, 183n background of, 107–8 California gold rush and, 108–9, 110–12 Chamberlain on, 188–91 Confer on, 191 on deaf commonwealth proposal, 163, 170–72, 177–84, 205–8 Emery on, 209 Flournoy’s reactions to, 172–76, 187, 194–205 letter to Mary Ann Booth, 110–12 ‘‘On Emigration to the West by Deaf Mutes,’’ 112–17 public affairs and, 109–10 Booth, Frank, 108 Booth, Mary Ann Walworth, ix, 108–12 Booth, Thomas, 111, 111n Boston Deaf-Mute Christian Association , 197n Brace, Julia, 63n–64n Braidwood, John, xxix Brewster, John, 143n Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 64n, 95–96, 96n, 97 Brief Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (Being Deaf and Dumb), A (Jewel), 118–28 Brown, Nicholas, 218 Brown, Thomas, 139, 140, 145, 150n, 153 1850 grand reunion remarks of, 141–42 Bryant, William Cullen, 90, 104, 104n Burnet, John R., vii–viii, xii, xxiii, xxv, xxvi, 104 background of, 38–40 on deaf commonwealth proposal, 193–94 ‘‘Emma,’’ xxvii, 40, 86–88 Nack and, 34 ‘‘On the Early Domestic Education of Children Born Deaf,’’ 44–64 ‘‘Orphan Mute, The,’’ 40, 64–86 ‘‘What the Deaf and Dumb Are before Instruction,’’ 40–44 Burnet, Phebe Osborn, 39 Burnet, Rachel, 39 Cabet, Etienne, 172, 172n Calhoun, John C., 157, 157n Candy, Elizabeth. See Clerc, Elizabeth Candy Carlin, Andrew, 89 Carlin, John, viii, xii, xxiv, xxv, 34 address at dedication of Gallaudet monument, 154, 156–60 address at inauguration of National Deaf-Mute College, 92, 214–15, 218–24 ‘‘Advantages and Disadvantages of the Use of Signs,’’ 94–100 INDEX 231 art and, 90, 92, 154, 216 background of, 89–90 on deaf commonwealth proposal, 192–93 Flournoy’s response to, 195, 202 lobbying for National Deaf-Mute College, xxvii, 92, 100–106, 213, 218 ‘‘Mute’s Lament, The,’’ xxv–xxvi, 90, 92–94 ‘‘National College for Mutes, The,’’ 100–106 public affairs of, 91–92 Carlin, Mary Wayland, 90 Catlin, George, vii Chamberlain, William, 188 Booth’s response to, 207–8 on deaf commonwealth proposal, 163, 188–91 Emery’s reaction to, 209 Flournoy’s response to, 193n–94n, 194–95, 204 Chase, Mestapher, xx Christian Examiner, 153 Christianity, 17–18, 45, 167, 222 deaf parishioners and, 91, 223n Civil War, viii, 109, 164, 183n, 212, 214, 219n Searing and, 129–30, 134–35 Clay, Henry, 4...