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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... building juvenile prisons and asylums, which were barely less harsh or punitive. Brace believed that most of these children were not criminals but victims of miserable economic and social conditions. Incarceration did nothing XIV Prologue.
... building juvenile prisons and asylums, which were barely less harsh or punitive. Brace believed that most of these children were not criminals but victims of miserable economic and social conditions. Incarceration did nothing XIV Prologue.
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... believed that ambition was a sin. He constantly excoriated himself for not living up to his own ideals—for not working hard enough, loving well enough, or having motives that were pure enough—but he never seems to have doubted the ...
... believed that ambition was a sin. He constantly excoriated himself for not living up to his own ideals—for not working hard enough, loving well enough, or having motives that were pure enough—but he never seems to have doubted the ...
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... believed that children were born damned. This was not mere theology, but a fact parents witnessed every day in their children's behavior. To Anne Bradstreet, sinning commenced with a child's first breath: Stained from birth with Adams ...
... believed that children were born damned. This was not mere theology, but a fact parents witnessed every day in their children's behavior. To Anne Bradstreet, sinning commenced with a child's first breath: Stained from birth with Adams ...
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... believed that virtue lay only in the suppression of what they called "self-will" and its replacement by a desire to serve, obey, and glorify God. For many Puritans the mere existence of a child's will was nigh unto a perversity all by ...
... believed that virtue lay only in the suppression of what they called "self-will" and its replacement by a desire to serve, obey, and glorify God. For many Puritans the mere existence of a child's will was nigh unto a perversity all by ...
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... believed the subject to be. Moral philosophy was never a mere exercise in mental agility for him, but simply the most basic and definitively human of all activities. Nothing mattered more to the elder Brace, or to his son, than the ...
... believed the subject to be. Moral philosophy was never a mere exercise in mental agility for him, but simply the most basic and definitively human of all activities. Nothing mattered more to the elder Brace, or to his son, than the ...
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