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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... 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 economic and social conditions. Incarceration did nothing XIV Prologue.
... 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 economic and social conditions. Incarceration did nothing XIV Prologue.
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... social conditions. Incarceration did nothing but "harden" them in the ways of crime. What they really needed, he maintained, was education, jobs, and good homes—and in March 1853 he established an organization to provide them with just ...
... social conditions. Incarceration did nothing but "harden" them in the ways of crime. What they really needed, he maintained, was education, jobs, and good homes—and in March 1853 he established an organization to provide them with just ...
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... social contacts included Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, and George Eliot. With all of his drive and accomplishment, Brace was a man of many contradictions. He was ferociously ambitious, yet ...
... social contacts included Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, and George Eliot. With all of his drive and accomplishment, Brace was a man of many contradictions. He was ferociously ambitious, yet ...
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... an important sense, the orphan train era never ended. What really happened is that during the first decades of the twentieth century, as a result of demographic, political, and social changes, fewer and fewer children were sent XX Prologue.
... an important sense, the orphan train era never ended. What really happened is that during the first decades of the twentieth century, as a result of demographic, political, and social changes, fewer and fewer children were sent XX Prologue.
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... social changes, fewer and fewer children were sent to homes in other states and more and more were placed locally. Decades before the last orphan train left for Texas, all of the main placement organizations—including the CAS—had become ...
... social changes, fewer and fewer children were sent to homes in other states and more and more were placed locally. Decades before the last orphan train left for Texas, all of the main placement organizations—including the CAS—had become ...
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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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