Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and FailedHMH, 4 de nov. de 2014 - 384 páginas The true story behind Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel is revealed in this “engaging and thoughtful history” of the Children’s Aid Society (Los Angeles Times). A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing the evolution of the Children’s Aid Society, this dramatic narrative tells the fascinating tale of one of the most famous—and sometimes infamous—child welfare programs: the orphan trains, which spirited away some two hundred fifty thousand abandoned children into the homes of rural families in the Midwest. In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, whether orphans or runaways, filled the streets. The city’s solution for years had been to sweep these children into prisons or almshouses. But a young minister named Charles Loring Brace took a different tack. With the creation of the Children’s Aid Society in 1853, he provided homeless youngsters with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family out west. The family matching process was haphazard, to say the least: at town meetings, farming families took their pick of the orphan train riders. Some children, such as James Brady, who became governor of Alaska, found loving homes, while others, such as Charley Miller, who shot two boys on a train in Wyoming, saw no end to their misery. Complete with extraordinary photographs and deeply moving stories, Orphan Trains gives invaluable insights into a creative genius whose pioneering, if controversial, efforts inform child rescue work today. |
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... Five Points, a district named for the pie-slice buildings at the intersection of its four major streets. Five Points was Manhattan's poorest, most crowded, and most dangerous neighborhood. It had been built Flood of Humanity 33.
... Five Points, a district named for the pie-slice buildings at the intersection of its four major streets. Five Points was Manhattan's poorest, most crowded, and most dangerous neighborhood. It had been built Flood of Humanity 33.
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... Five Points under police protection in 1842, pedestrians who strayed into the district's maze of back alleys could sink in this fetid stew up to their knees.4 Five Points was the place where ambition went sour, where people who had ...
... Five Points under police protection in 1842, pedestrians who strayed into the district's maze of back alleys could sink in this fetid stew up to their knees.4 Five Points was the place where ambition went sour, where people who had ...
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... Five Points, and in the growing slums of other American cities, had a lot less to do with individual moral weakness and a lot more to do with the nation's coming of age. New York in the nineteenth century was very much like a Third ...
... Five Points, and in the growing slums of other American cities, had a lot less to do with individual moral weakness and a lot more to do with the nation's coming of age. New York in the nineteenth century was very much like a Third ...
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... Five Points — children were much more likely than now to lose one or both parents and often wound up destitute and on the streets. Immigration helped swell the number of New York's street children mainly by adding to the oversupply of ...
... Five Points — children were much more likely than now to lose one or both parents and often wound up destitute and on the streets. Immigration helped swell the number of New York's street children mainly by adding to the oversupply of ...
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