Hearing with the Eye
North Endeavor
William Bolling
South Endeavor
Mason Fitch Cogswell
believed in manualism
founded American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut
believed in oralism
founded Cobbs School for the Deaf in Virginia
thriving seaports helped ensure the economy’s success
preferred the government involvement was essential
New England’s economy was based on merchant trade
Bolling family was among hundreds of successful slaveholding families
education be kept private without government involvement
agrarian-based
depended solely on student tuition
school’s collapse and closed in 1816
financially support and maintain a deaf school were much superior
the school was successful
only had a handful of students
had more class sizes
minsters more successful in converting these powerful sentiments to deaf
had religious revivals