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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... labor. The girls could be used for all types of housework. When he had finished speaking, bench-legs squawked on the floorboards and the congregation came forward to get a better look at the children. Some of these men and women were ...
... labor. The girls could be used for all types of housework. When he had finished speaking, bench-legs squawked on the floorboards and the congregation came forward to get a better look at the children. Some of these men and women were ...
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... labor. Understanding, at least intuitively, that in most ways life would have gone on unchanged in their homes without them, affluent women increasingly tied their sense of self-worth to the non-economically productive aspects of their ...
... labor. Understanding, at least intuitively, that in most ways life would have gone on unchanged in their homes without them, affluent women increasingly tied their sense of self-worth to the non-economically productive aspects of their ...
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... loss — it was harder to see such work as dignified, God-sanctioned labor and to separate it from simple greed. Disturbed by what they saw as an ever more avaricious, ugly, and unnatural world wrought by men, Victorians 12 ORPHAN TRAINS.
... loss — it was harder to see such work as dignified, God-sanctioned labor and to separate it from simple greed. Disturbed by what they saw as an ever more avaricious, ugly, and unnatural world wrought by men, Victorians 12 ORPHAN TRAINS.
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... labor was encouraged by the development of new industries within the city. There had been no more than a handful of printers and book publishers in New York in 1810, for example, but by i860 there were 154 such businesses — and they ...
... labor was encouraged by the development of new industries within the city. There had been no more than a handful of printers and book publishers in New York in 1810, for example, but by i860 there were 154 such businesses — and they ...
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... labor, overwhelmed parents would still often send their children to live with relatives or friends during financial or domestic crises. These informal foster parents commonly expected the children to work in order to "earn their keep ...
... labor, overwhelmed parents would still often send their children to live with relatives or friends during financial or domestic crises. These informal foster parents commonly expected the children to work in order to "earn their keep ...
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