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- Oct 2017
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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hilmark
A very small town on a very small island.
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By the middle of the 19th century, one in every 25 people in Chilmark was deaf. In the U.S. overall, by contrast, that number was roughly one in 5,700.
There's 4% people were deaf in Chilmark in 19th century.
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They were also the beginning of a language and deaf culture unique to the island—one that used to thrive, but is now extinct.
They the beginning of people use the thrive in this iland
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Two of those people were the children of Jonathan Lambert,
He had two kids.
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In seclusion, its residents married and had children almost exclusively with one another, and the Lamberts’ hereditary deafness soon spread throughout the town. By the middle of the 19th century, one in every 25 people in Chilmark was deaf
They married each other and when you have sex with your siblings or cousins and you get pregnant there is a high chance of the child being born with desavility
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The deafness was inherited through generation to generation
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From its founding in 1640 through the end of the 1800s, people who were born in Chilmark, a small town on the western end of Martha’s Vineyard, also tended to die in Chilmark.
People who were born there usually died there.
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Martha’s Vineyard
martha vineyard and his family.
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over the years, it evolved and spread into what would become Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language.
it spread out it be Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language as mvsl
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In seclusion, its residents married and had children almost exclusively with one another, and the Lamberts’ hereditary deafness soon spread throughout the town. By the middle of the 19th century, one in every 25 people in Chilmark was deaf
- so the deafness was spread in chilmark.
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Lambert was deaf; his children, born after his arrival, were the first congenitally deaf residents of Martha’s Vineyard.
he was deaf and his kids was born deaf too.
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