Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and FailedUniversity of Chicago Press, 2004 - 362 páginas In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the problem by creating the Children's Aid Society, an organization that fought to provide homeless children with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family in the country. Combining a biography of Brace with firsthand accounts of orphans, Stephen O'Connor here tells of the orphan trains that, between 1854 and 1929, spirited away some 250,000 destitute children to rural homes in every one of the forty-eight contiguous states. A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphans Trains remains the definitive work on this little-known episode in American history. |
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... City Missionary 71 4. Draining the City , Saving the Children 83 5. Journey to Dowagiac 94 6. A Voice Among the Newsboys 116 7. Happy Circle 148 8. Almost a Miracle 177 PART III : REDOING Testimony : Lotte Stern 205 9.
... City Missionary 71 4. Draining the City , Saving the Children 83 5. Journey to Dowagiac 94 6. A Voice Among the Newsboys 116 7. Happy Circle 148 8. Almost a Miracle 177 PART III : REDOING Testimony : Lotte Stern 205 9.
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... City . The children had arrived on the train from Detroit at three that morning and had huddled together on the station platform until sunup . They had spent the previous night on a steamer crossing Lake Erie from Buffalo , New York ...
... City . The children had arrived on the train from Detroit at three that morning and had huddled together on the station platform until sunup . They had spent the previous night on a steamer crossing Lake Erie from Buffalo , New York ...
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... city preacher . His name was E. P. Smith , and he was telling the audience about the organization he represented : the Chil- dren's Aid Society , which had been founded only one and a half years earlier by a young minister named Charles ...
... city preacher . His name was E. P. Smith , and he was telling the audience about the organization he represented : the Chil- dren's Aid Society , which had been founded only one and a half years earlier by a young minister named Charles ...
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... city children had found foster homes through these programs . Some of these children were abused by their new families in all the ways that we are familiar with from present - day news reports about the tragedies of foster care , and ...
... city children had found foster homes through these programs . Some of these children were abused by their new families in all the ways that we are familiar with from present - day news reports about the tragedies of foster care , and ...
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... city . The term " orphan trains " is also misleading because a substantial number of the placed - out children never took the railroad to their new homes , or even traveled very far . Although the majority of chil- dren placed by the ...
... city . The term " orphan trains " is also misleading because a substantial number of the placed - out children never took the railroad to their new homes , or even traveled very far . Although the majority of chil- dren placed by the ...
Conteúdo
John Brady and Harry Morris | 3 |
The Good Father | 5 |
Flood of Humanity | 32 |
DOING | 65 |
John Jackson | 67 |
City Missionary | 71 |
Draining the City Saving the Children | 83 |
Journey to Dowagiac | 94 |
REDOING | 203 |
Lotte Stern | 205 |
Invisible Children | 209 |
Neglect of the Poor | 233 |
The Trials of Charley Miller | 258 |
The Death and Life of Charles Loring Brace | 284 |
Legacy | 310 |
331 | |
A Voice Among the Newsboys | 116 |
Happy Circle | 148 |
Almost a Miracle | 177 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 345 |
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Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved ... Stephen O'Connor Visualização parcial - 2014 |
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