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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... young teenagers . During the week the meetinghouse served as a school , but on that day , a Sunday , it was a Presbyterian church , and more than usually crowded , not only because the children had taken so many seats , but because the ...
... young teenagers . During the week the meetinghouse served as a school , but on that day , a Sunday , it was a Presbyterian church , and more than usually crowded , not only because the children had taken so many seats , but because the ...
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... young man beside the altar , whose enthusiasm , accent , and fluid gestures marked him as a 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 ...
... young man beside the altar , whose enthusiasm , accent , and fluid gestures marked him as a 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 ...
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... young beneficiaries religious guidance at Sunday meetings and vocational and academic instruction at its industrial schools . It also established the nation's first runaway shelter , the Newsboys ' Lodging House , where vagrant boys ...
... young beneficiaries religious guidance at Sunday meetings and vocational and academic instruction at its industrial schools . It also established the nation's first runaway shelter , the Newsboys ' Lodging House , where vagrant boys ...
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... young manhood was Frederick Law Olm- sted , the celebrated designer of Central Park , and his social contacts included Charles Darwin , John Stuart Mill , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Washington Irving , and George Eliot . With all of his ...
... young manhood was Frederick Law Olm- sted , the celebrated designer of Central Park , and his social contacts included Charles Darwin , John Stuart Mill , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Washington Irving , and George Eliot . With all of his ...
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... young men dead on a boxcar in Wyoming because , as he put it at his trial , he was lonely and cold and so far from home . A cautionary note : although the term " orphan trains " has a poetic res- onance and a degree of recognition that ...
... young men dead on a boxcar in Wyoming because , as he put it at his trial , he was lonely and cold and so far from home . A cautionary note : although the term " orphan trains " has a poetic res- onance and a degree of recognition that ...
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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