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Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard by Nora Ellen Groce, Harvard University Press Paperback, 169 Pages, Published 1988 ISBN-10: 0-674-27041-X / 067427041X ISBN-13: 978-0-674-27041-1 / 9780674270411 From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most deaf people in our own society, the Vineyarders who were born deaf were so thoroughly |