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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... Poor 233 11. The Trials of Charley Miller 258 12. The Death and Life of Charles Loring Brace 284 Conclusion : Legacy 310 NOTES 331 BIBLIOGRAPHY 336 INDEX 350 Acknowledgments This book could never have been written without the viii Contents.
... Poor 233 11. The Trials of Charley Miller 258 12. The Death and Life of Charles Loring Brace 284 Conclusion : Legacy 310 NOTES 331 BIBLIOGRAPHY 336 INDEX 350 Acknowledgments This book could never have been written without the viii Contents.
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... poor people , of course , and run- down houses on the back streets and disreputable taverns on the waterfronts , but none of the large , decaying neighborhoods of fear and despair that are so ubiquitous in urban America today ...
... poor people , of course , and run- down houses on the back streets and disreputable taverns on the waterfronts , but none of the large , decaying neighborhoods of fear and despair that are so ubiquitous in urban America today ...
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... of the movement , and of many other efforts on behalf of poor children , and remains to this day perhaps the preeminent figure in American child welfare history . Until well into the twentieth century , Prologue xvii.
... of the movement , and of many other efforts on behalf of poor children , and remains to this day perhaps the preeminent figure in American child welfare history . Until well into the twentieth century , Prologue xvii.
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... poor city children , while occasionally echoed in the speeches of politicians and child welfare experts , is one that our nation dearly needs to reclaim . Brace was an exceedingly hardworking , intelligent , and complex man whose life ...
... poor city children , while occasionally echoed in the speeches of politicians and child welfare experts , is one that our nation dearly needs to reclaim . Brace was an exceedingly hardworking , intelligent , and complex man whose life ...
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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 |
331 | |
A Voice Among the Newsboys | 116 |
Happy Circle | 148 |
Almost a Miracle | 177 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 345 |
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