her both deaf and blind. For nearly six years she lived in a state of profound isolation, unable to commu... ed by reading, conversation, travel, lecture, and lived experience — visiting factories, sweatshops, and ... special education theory and with how she herself lived. She went so far as to endorse eugenics, arguing
colonial education. Born in San Juan in 1787, she lived her entire life as a liberta — a free Black woman... ed to wages and accreditation. She never married, lived as an independent entrepreneur and paid teacher,