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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... mother and said to her, "This isn't the son that we had, is it? The one we sent out west." My mother said to him, yes, he wants to speak to you in person. Well, what a fine lad this is, he had no more than got lad out of his tongue ...
... mother and said to her, "This isn't the son that we had, is it? The one we sent out west." My mother said to him, yes, he wants to speak to you in person. Well, what a fine lad this is, he had no more than got lad out of his tongue ...
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... mothers had added to the family coffers by tending livestock and gardens and making clothing, these women only spent their husband's money at stores and on the servants who performed almost every household labor. Understanding, at least ...
... mothers had added to the family coffers by tending livestock and gardens and making clothing, these women only spent their husband's money at stores and on the servants who performed almost every household labor. Understanding, at least ...
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... mother.13 The early Victorian middle- and upper-middle-class mother was helped to take on her new responsibilities by a new genre of literature: the mother's guide. These books portrayed raising children as the consummate fulfillment of ...
... mother.13 The early Victorian middle- and upper-middle-class mother was helped to take on her new responsibilities by a new genre of literature: the mother's guide. These books portrayed raising children as the consummate fulfillment of ...
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... mother's love for her child was what enabled her to give so much of herself, and a child's love of his or her mother was what made the child want to follow the mother's example and advice. Only from Lydia Maria Child do we hear anything ...
... mother's love for her child was what enabled her to give so much of herself, and a child's love of his or her mother was what made the child want to follow the mother's example and advice. Only from Lydia Maria Child do we hear anything ...
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... mother's guides of the early nineteenth century also contained such advice, their authors primarily intended them as handbooks for moral instruction. Catharine Beecher's popular mother's guide was even called The Moral Instructor. A ...
... mother's guides of the early nineteenth century also contained such advice, their authors primarily intended them as handbooks for moral instruction. Catharine Beecher's popular mother's guide was even called The Moral Instructor. A ...
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Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved ... Stephen O'Connor Visualização parcial - 2004 |
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