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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... five children sat on the front benches of a meetinghouse in Dowagiac , Michigan . Most were between ten and twelve years old , though at least one was six and a few were young teenagers . During the week the meetinghouse served as a ...
... five children sat on the front benches of a meetinghouse in Dowagiac , Michigan . Most were between ten and twelve years old , though at least one was six and a few were young teenagers . During the week the meetinghouse served as a ...
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... five young people sitting in the Dowagiac meetinghouse were the first of these groups — and the first riders of what would come to be called the " orphan trains . " As Smith explained the program to his audience , he appealed equally to ...
... five young people sitting in the Dowagiac meetinghouse were the first of these groups — and the first riders of what would come to be called the " orphan trains . " As Smith explained the program to his audience , he appealed equally to ...
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... five years the CAS orphan trains carried an estimated 105,000 children to all of the contiguous forty - eight states except Ari- zona . For most of those years the children were distributed to their new " parents " or " employers ...
... five years the CAS orphan trains carried an estimated 105,000 children to all of the contiguous forty - eight states except Ari- zona . For most of those years the children were distributed to their new " parents " or " employers ...
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... five years old walked off after a marching band and never found his way home again ; a lame street peddler named Johnny Morrow , who won over the Children's Aid Society staff by fulfilling their most sentimental fantasies ; Lotte Stern ...
... five years old walked off after a marching band and never found his way home again ; a lame street peddler named Johnny Morrow , who won over the Children's Aid Society staff by fulfilling their most sentimental fantasies ; Lotte Stern ...
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... HOMELESS OFF FOR THE WEST . ADOPTED . THE WORK OF THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY Illustrations commonly used as a frontispiece in Children's Aid Society annual reports between 1873 and 1890 PART I Want JOHN O'REILLY , FIVE POINTS NEWSBOY HOUSE.
... HOMELESS OFF FOR THE WEST . ADOPTED . THE WORK OF THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY Illustrations commonly used as a frontispiece in Children's Aid Society annual reports between 1873 and 1890 PART I Want 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 |
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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