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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... American Antiquarian Society , the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts , and the MacDowell Colony for doing so much to make me a wiser , saner , and better writer . My thanks also to Kathy Newman , Paul Attewell , Rob Cohen , and ...
... American Antiquarian Society , the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts , and the MacDowell Colony for doing so much to make me a wiser , saner , and better writer . My thanks also to Kathy Newman , Paul Attewell , Rob Cohen , and ...
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... America today . Beginning shortly after the War of 1812 , torrential immigration and the nation's uneasy transition to industrial capitalism had divided American cities into hostile camps of the affluent and the desperately poor . In no ...
... America today . Beginning shortly after the War of 1812 , torrential immigration and the nation's uneasy transition to industrial capitalism had divided American cities into hostile camps of the affluent and the desperately poor . In no ...
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... America , CAS agents rarely checked up in person on the boys and girls they had placed . The society tried to keep tabs on placements by sending both ... American child welfare history . Until well into the twentieth century , Prologue xvii.
... America , CAS agents rarely checked up in person on the boys and girls they had placed . The society tried to keep tabs on placements by sending both ... American child welfare history . Until well into the twentieth century , Prologue xvii.
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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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