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