The life and times of T.H. Gallaudet

The Resource The life and times of T.H. Gallaudet
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The life and times of T.H. Gallaudet
Statement of responsibility
Edna Edith Sayers
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Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Edna Edith Sayers has written the definitive biography of T. H. Gallaudet (1787-1851), celebrated today as the founder of deaf education in America. Sayers traces Gallaudet's work in the fields of deaf education, free common schools, literacy, teacher education and certification, and children's books, while also examining his role in reactionary causes intended to uphold a white, Protestant nation thought to have existed in New England's golden past. Gallaudet's youthful social and political entanglements included involvement with Connecticut's conservative, state-established Congregational Church, the Federalist Party, and the Counter-Enlightenment ideals of Yale (where he was a student). He later embraced anti-immigrant, anti-abolition, and anti-Catholic efforts, and supported the expatriation of free African-Americans to settlements on Africa's west coast. As much a history of the paternalistic, bigoted, and class-conscious roots of a reform movement as a story of one man's life, this landmark work will surprise and enlighten both the hearing and Deaf worlds
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
  • 371.91/2092
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HV2426.G3
LC item number
S29 2018
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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