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Building Deaf Spaces in Nineteenth-Century New York State

By R. A. R Edwards

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In 1879, Joseph DeHart moved to Rochester, New York. He was one of many African Americans to settle in the upstate city in the 1870s. As Kathryn Grover reports, “Between 1870 and 1875, African Americans moved in greatest numbers to such cities as Rochester and Elmira, which were industrially vigoro...

Building Deaf Spaces in Nineteenth-Century New York State

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