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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... hospitality and advice , and for having had the com- passion and courage to help so many people . For doing so much to help me understand the true nature of foster care now and in the past , I want to ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... hospitality and advice , and for having had the com- passion and courage to help so many people . For doing so much to help me understand the true nature of foster care now and in the past , I want to ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
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... natural and good . Later chapters discuss the successes and failures of Brace's efforts , and those of his imitators , and show how changing ideas of childhood , work , bondage , and the nature of society caused what had once seemed an ...
... natural and good . Later chapters discuss the successes and failures of Brace's efforts , and those of his imitators , and show how changing ideas of childhood , work , bondage , and the nature of society caused what had once seemed an ...
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... nature and goals of orphan train programs and misrepresent the experiences of many of the placed children . Such a focus would also obscure the fact that , in an important sense , the orphan train era never ended . What really happened ...
... nature and goals of orphan train programs and misrepresent the experiences of many of the placed children . Such a focus would also obscure the fact that , in an important sense , the orphan train era never ended . What really happened ...
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... nature and goals . It is important — even consummately important — not to obscure the connection between the orphan trains and our own child welfare programs , because the consequences of Brace's moral effort end — if they may be said ...
... nature and goals . It is important — even consummately important — not to obscure the connection between the orphan trains and our own child welfare programs , because the consequences of Brace's moral effort end — if they may be said ...
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... , w through subtler arts , are a complishing quietly year by Agent C.E. S A cartoon from an 1874 edition of the Irish World newspaper , showing a widely held Catholic vision of the true nature of the " work of the Children's Aid Society "
... , w through subtler arts , are a complishing quietly year by Agent C.E. S A cartoon from an 1874 edition of the Irish World newspaper , showing a widely held Catholic vision of the true nature of the " work of the Children's Aid Society "
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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