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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The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed Stephen O'Connor. Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix Prologue : Working for Human Happiness xiii JP PART I WANT Testimony : John ... John Jackson 67 3. City Missionary 71 4 ...
The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed Stephen O'Connor. Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix Prologue : Working for Human Happiness xiii JP PART I WANT Testimony : John ... John Jackson 67 3. City Missionary 71 4 ...
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The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed Stephen O'Connor. care now and in the past , I ... John Courtney , Edith Holt- zer , LynNell Hancock , Janis Ruden , Steve Shapiro , and Christina Lem . I also want to ...
The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed Stephen O'Connor. care now and in the past , I ... John Courtney , Edith Holt- zer , LynNell Hancock , Janis Ruden , Steve Shapiro , and Christina Lem . I also want to ...
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... Brace's work and ideas . His notion that children are better cared for by families than in institutions is the most ... John Stuart Mill , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Washington Irving , and George Eliot . With all of his drive and accomplishment , ...
... Brace's work and ideas . His notion that children are better cared for by families than in institutions is the most ... John Stuart Mill , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Washington Irving , and George Eliot . With all of his drive and accomplishment , ...
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... Brace's effort lies in its effect on the lives of these children . This book illustrates that effect by looking at the fates of orphan train riders in aggregate , and by telling the sto- ries of particular children : John Jackson , who ...
... Brace's effort lies in its effect on the lives of these children . This book illustrates that effect by looking at the fates of orphan train riders in aggregate , and by telling the sto- ries of particular children : John Jackson , who ...
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The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed Stephen O'Connor. THE YOUNG FARMER .. RESCUED HOMELESS OFF FOR THE WEST . ADOPTED . THE WORK OF THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ... JOHN O'REILLY , FIVE POINTS NEWSBOY HOUSE.
The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed Stephen O'Connor. THE YOUNG FARMER .. RESCUED HOMELESS OFF FOR THE WEST . ADOPTED . THE WORK OF THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ... JOHN O'REILLY , FIVE POINTS NEWSBOY HOUSE.
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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 |
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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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