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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... girls from 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 ...
... girls from 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 ...
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... girls had known too much disappointment and loneliness to be afraid of what was about to happen to them , or at least to reveal that fear , even to themselves . Some of them cast glances — challenging , or ingratiat- ing — back at the ...
... girls had known too much disappointment and loneliness to be afraid of what was about to happen to them , or at least to reveal that fear , even to themselves . Some of them cast glances — challenging , or ingratiat- ing — back at the ...
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... girls could be used for all types of housework . When he had finished speaking , bench - legs squawked on the floor- boards and the congregation came forward to get a better look at the children . Some of these men and women were ...
... girls could be used for all types of housework . When he had finished speaking , bench - legs squawked on the floor- boards and the congregation came forward to get a better look at the children . Some of these men and women were ...
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... girls had gone to live with local farmers or craftsmen , and by Thursday evening , twenty - two more had been taken . On Friday , Smith and the eight unclaimed children — the youngest and therefore the least able work- ers — continued ...
... girls had gone to live with local farmers or craftsmen , and by Thursday evening , twenty - two more had been taken . On Friday , Smith and the eight unclaimed children — the youngest and therefore the least able work- ers — continued ...
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... girls they had placed . The society tried to keep tabs on placements by sending both the children and their foster parents regular letters of inquiry , but these mostly went unanswered . Sustained by a monitoring system that seriously ...
... girls they had placed . The society tried to keep tabs on placements by sending both the children and their foster parents regular letters of inquiry , but these mostly went unanswered . Sustained by a monitoring system that seriously ...
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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