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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... program to his audience, he appealed equally to their consciences and pocketbooks. These were the "little ones of Christ," he said, who had the same capacities, the same need of good influences, and the same immortal soul as "our own ...
... program to his audience, he appealed equally to their consciences and pocketbooks. These were the "little ones of Christ," he said, who had the same capacities, the same need of good influences, and the same immortal soul as "our own ...
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... programs. Some of these children were abused by their new families in all the ways that we are familiar with from present-day news reports about the tragedies of foster care, and some were just as happy as the literature of their ...
... programs. Some of these children were abused by their new families in all the ways that we are familiar with from present-day news reports about the tragedies of foster care, and some were just as happy as the literature of their ...
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... program seeking to help homeless and needy children was either inspired by or a response to Brace's work and ideas. His notion that children are better cared for by families than in institutions is the most basic tenet of present-day ...
... program seeking to help homeless and needy children was either inspired by or a response to Brace's work and ideas. His notion that children are better cared for by families than in institutions is the most basic tenet of present-day ...
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... programs and misrepresent the experiences of many of the placed children. Such a focus would also obscure the fact that, in an important sense, the orphan train era never ended. What really happened is that during the first decades of ...
... programs and misrepresent the experiences of many of the placed children. Such a focus would also obscure the fact that, in an important sense, the orphan train era never ended. What really happened is that during the first decades of ...
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... programs, because the consequences of Brace's moral effort end—if they may be said to have ended at all—only now, in this moment, and in each succeeding moment, as we ourselves decide what we can and should do to help the "poor and ...
... programs, because the consequences of Brace's moral effort end—if they may be said to have ended at all—only now, in this moment, and in each succeeding moment, as we ourselves decide what we can and should do to help the "poor and ...
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