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© 2011 by Gallaudet University
All rights reserved. Published in 2011. Paperback edition published in 2020.
Cover design for paperback edition by Eric C. Wilder.
On the cover: The Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and Blind, founded in 1909.
Printed in the United States of America

Paperback ISBN 978-1-944838-72-0
Ebook ISBN 978-1-944838-74-4

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
The hidden treasure of Black ASL: its history and structure/Carolyn McCaskill . . . [et al.]; in collaboration with Roxanne King Pamela Baldwin Randall Hogue.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-56368-489-0 (hard cover: alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-56368-489-6 (hard cover: alk. paper)
1. American Sign Language. 2. African Americans. 3. Deaf—United States.

1. McCaskill, Carolyn.
HV2545.H53 2011
419’.707—dc22

2010052968

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