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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... asking families to take in homeless boys and 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 ...
... asking families to take in homeless boys and 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 ...
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... Smith's party , some blinked back tears that such innocents should already have known so much hardship , others looked them up and down and asked questions , trying to assess their strength and honesty , while one or two went Prologue XV.
... Smith's party , some blinked back tears that such innocents should already have known so much hardship , others looked them up and down and asked questions , trying to assess their strength and honesty , while one or two went Prologue XV.
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... asked them about their property , professions , and church attendance , and , if he saw no evidence that they were liars or degenerates , gave them a child . By the end of that first day ( a Monday ) , fifteen boys and girls had gone to ...
... asked them about their property , professions , and church attendance , and , if he saw no evidence that they were liars or degenerates , gave them a child . By the end of that first day ( a Monday ) , fifteen boys and girls had gone to ...
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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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Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved ... Stephen O'Connor Visualização parcial - 2014 |
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