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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... era. Up through the early nineteenth century there had been no slums in American cities. There had been poor people, of course, and rundown houses on the back streets and disreputable taverns on the waterfronts, but none of the large ...
... era. Up through the early nineteenth century there had been no slums in American cities. There had been poor people, of course, and rundown houses on the back streets and disreputable taverns on the waterfronts, but none of the large ...
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... nineteenth century) and reddened by sun, wind, and, in not a few cases, whiskey. As they mingled with Smith's party, some blinked back tears that such innocents should already have known so much hardship, others looked them up and down ...
... nineteenth century) and reddened by sun, wind, and, in not a few cases, whiskey. As they mingled with Smith's party, some blinked back tears that such innocents should already have known so much hardship, others looked them up and down ...
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... nineteenth-century rural America, CAS agents rarely checked up in person on the boys and girls they had placed. The society tried to keep tabs on placements by sending both the children and their foster parents regular letters of ...
... nineteenth-century rural America, CAS agents rarely checked up in person on the boys and girls they had placed. The society tried to keep tabs on placements by sending both the children and their foster parents regular letters of ...
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... nineteenth century the United States was undergoing a dramatic shift in social organization. An economy composed pri marily of small-scale independent entrepreneurs — farmers, craftspeople, and shopkeepers 8 ORPHAN TRAINS.
... nineteenth century the United States was undergoing a dramatic shift in social organization. An economy composed pri marily of small-scale independent entrepreneurs — farmers, craftspeople, and shopkeepers 8 ORPHAN TRAINS.
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... century, and more rapidly during the nineteenth, the foundations for many of these beliefs began to crumble, partly under the assault of rationalism and Romanticism, but mostly through the successes of capitalism. Between 1820 and i860 ...
... century, and more rapidly during the nineteenth, the foundations for many of these beliefs began to crumble, partly under the assault of rationalism and Romanticism, but mostly through the successes of capitalism. Between 1820 and i860 ...
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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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