LIVING WITH DISABILITIES IN NEW ENGLAND, 1630-1930

This publication is a collection of papers presented at the Dublin Seminar of New England Folklife conference in June of 2021.  The papers were presented under the following topics: Living with Disabilities in Early New England and Teaching Disability History.  In addition, Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in this Publication are included.

The following is a list of the title and author of each paper:

The Language of Impairment: Disability among New England Men in the Long Eighteenth Century by Casey L. Green

"By the Providence of God Is Bereaved of Her Reason": An Eighteenth-Century New England Minister's Response to Mental Illness by Ross W. Beales Jr.

Hearing the Gospel in a Silent World: Disability, Gender, and Religion in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1684 by Katherine R. Ranum

Heroic and Disabled: Howard Blackburn and the Valorization of the New England Fisherman by Michael J. Chiarappa

Fitness for Freedom: The Lived Experience of Disability, Enslavement, and Emancipation in Early New England by Jerrad P. Pacatte

"Useful Members of Society": Work and Capacity in Deaf and Blind Schools, 1817-1840 by Meg Roberts

Deafness in Black and White: Integration at the American School for the Deaf, 1825-1870 by Rebecca R. Edwards

Folklife and the Material Culture of Disability History in Early America by Nicole Belolan

Infusing Disability History into the Classroom by Rich Cairn and Graham Warder

The Return of the Town of Lanesborough, Massachusetts, 1829 by Laurel Daen

The Petition and Lamentation of Benjamin Fowler by Benjamin H. Irvin

The Petition of William Sutton of Boston, Joyner (1706/07) by Ben Mutschler