Little Deaf History: Salem, Massachusetts

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The hometown of George Ropes, Jr. - a Deaf painter the Shipwrecked Historians favored and relied on for their research on the ships.

Laurent Clerc met Ropes first in 1816 and described him as a brilliant Deaf man who could converse in a language of signs. George succumbed to illness in 1819.

Narrated by Kathleen L. Brockway
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