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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... prisons and almshouses, and then, beginning in the 1820s, by 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 ...
... prisons and almshouses, and then, beginning in the 1820s, by 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 ...
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... prisons and almshouses. Not everyone shared this dim view of street children, of course. In 1825 a group of New Yorkers who ... prison, 800 of whom were fourteen or younger, and 175 of whom were younger than ten.10 And civic authorities ...
... prisons and almshouses. Not everyone shared this dim view of street children, of course. In 1825 a group of New Yorkers who ... prison, 800 of whom were fourteen or younger, and 175 of whom were younger than ten.10 And civic authorities ...
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... prison" because it was intended to redeem prisoners rather than merely punish them. As in the almshouse, and orphanages and houses of refuge, reform was to be accomplished through hard work, strict discipline, rigid schedules, and ...
... prison" because it was intended to redeem prisoners rather than merely punish them. As in the almshouse, and orphanages and houses of refuge, reform was to be accomplished through hard work, strict discipline, rigid schedules, and ...
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... prison on her tour, with a decidedly radical agenda that she took no pains to conceal from the people accompanying her. When one of these companions was prompted to ask, regarding the prisoners, "Would you have them prey on society ...
... prison on her tour, with a decidedly radical agenda that she took no pains to conceal from the people accompanying her. When one of these companions was prompted to ask, regarding the prisoners, "Would you have them prey on society ...
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... prison."27 One Sunday near the end of October 1849, Brace was rowed by two convicts from the rocky shore of Manhattan across the churning East River to Blackwell's Island. Most of the leaves were already off the trees, and the bare ...
... prison."27 One Sunday near the end of October 1849, Brace was rowed by two convicts from the rocky shore of Manhattan across the churning East River to Blackwell's Island. Most of the leaves were already off the trees, and the bare ...
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