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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... seemed an act of nearly unassailable wisdom and compassion to appear cruelly indifferent to the very children it had been designed to help. The true measure of the virtue of Brace's effort lies in its effect on the lives of these ...
... seemed an act of nearly unassailable wisdom and compassion to appear cruelly indifferent to the very children it had been designed to help. The true measure of the virtue of Brace's effort lies in its effect on the lives of these ...
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... as "a wide, roomy, windy edifice that seemed to have been built by a series of afterthoughts."2 Despite their philosophical differences, John Brace soon won at least the cordial respect of the famous minister, 6 ORPHAN TRAINS.
... as "a wide, roomy, windy edifice that seemed to have been built by a series of afterthoughts."2 Despite their philosophical differences, John Brace soon won at least the cordial respect of the famous minister, 6 ORPHAN TRAINS.
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... seemed to have pegged her nephew as a potential teacher from his earliest childhood. She and her sister Mary oversaw his education in Hartford, where he had been born, and paid his tuition at Williams College. For a while John seems to ...
... seemed to have pegged her nephew as a potential teacher from his earliest childhood. She and her sister Mary oversaw his education in Hartford, where he had been born, and paid his tuition at Williams College. For a while John seems to ...
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... seemed as natural as it had during earlier, harder eras. More to the point, growing numbers of people began to believe that the true elect were not those who most loved God, but those who most loved money. Puritan culture was also ...
... seemed as natural as it had during earlier, harder eras. More to the point, growing numbers of people began to believe that the true elect were not those who most loved God, but those who most loved money. Puritan culture was also ...
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... seemed out of place in a Puritan father's guide of a century before, nor much of the advice in the text that followed. Industry and frugality were as strongly recommended as ever. Lydia Maria Child told her readers: "As far as possible ...
... seemed out of place in a Puritan father's guide of a century before, nor much of the advice in the text that followed. Industry and frugality were as strongly recommended as ever. Lydia Maria Child told her readers: "As far as possible ...
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