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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... reform societies were soon founded all along the Eastern Seaboard and as far west as Saint Louis. The "wise and good" who staffed these societies were generally evangelical clerics whose primary goal was to attract converts. Over time ...
... reform societies were soon founded all along the Eastern Seaboard and as far west as Saint Louis. The "wise and good" who staffed these societies were generally evangelical clerics whose primary goal was to attract converts. Over time ...
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... reform was to be accomplished through hard work, strict discipline, rigid schedules, and compulsory religion. Some penal institutions took additional steps to encourage penitence. At Sing Sing, for example, prisoners were not allowed to ...
... reform was to be accomplished through hard work, strict discipline, rigid schedules, and compulsory religion. Some penal institutions took additional steps to encourage penitence. At Sing Sing, for example, prisoners were not allowed to ...
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... reform techniques was practiced on Blackwell's Island. Inmates there were allowed to talk freely, and although the penitentiary's 756 stone cells had been designed for single occupancy, they often contained two and even three prisoners ...
... reform techniques was practiced on Blackwell's Island. Inmates there were allowed to talk freely, and although the penitentiary's 756 stone cells had been designed for single occupancy, they often contained two and even three prisoners ...
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... reform.29 After Brace began his Sunday visits to Blackwell's Island, he all but ceased talking of a career in the pulpit. His letters were full of meditations on the "inefficiency of religion" and particularly on that "Calvin piety ...
... reform.29 After Brace began his Sunday visits to Blackwell's Island, he all but ceased talking of a career in the pulpit. His letters were full of meditations on the "inefficiency of religion" and particularly on that "Calvin piety ...
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... reform of vice-prone children, it could hardly have been more superficial. When, for example, Lydia Maria Child toured an orphan asylum in rural Queens, New York, her guide informed her with evident pride that it was "beautiful to see ...
... reform of vice-prone children, it could hardly have been more superficial. When, for example, Lydia Maria Child toured an orphan asylum in rural Queens, New York, her guide informed her with evident pride that it was "beautiful to see ...
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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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