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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... wanted for themselves. The fortyfive young people sitting in the Dowagiac meetinghouse were the first of these groups—and the first riders of what would come to be called the "orphan trains." As Smith explained the program to his ...
... wanted for themselves. The fortyfive young people sitting in the Dowagiac meetinghouse were the first of these groups—and the first riders of what would come to be called the "orphan trains." As Smith explained the program to his ...
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... wanted always to live more simply and to endure greater hardship. What he called his "brightest of all visions" was "a humble, self-controlled life, all devoted, given up, to working for human happiness."2 As much as Brace's work with ...
... wanted always to live more simply and to endure greater hardship. What he called his "brightest of all visions" was "a humble, self-controlled life, all devoted, given up, to working for human happiness."2 As much as Brace's work with ...
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... wanted her to go along.... The moment I stepped in the door, the elderly man sitting at the desk recognized my mother and said to her, "This isn't the son that we had, is it? The one we sent out west." My mother said to him, yes, he ...
... wanted her to go along.... The moment I stepped in the door, the elderly man sitting at the desk recognized my mother and said to her, "This isn't the son that we had, is it? The one we sent out west." My mother said to him, yes, he ...
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... wanted students "to feel but to feel in subordination to reason." Education, he told the new graduates, would improve woman's "rank in society, placing her as the rational companion of man, not the slave of his pleasures or the victim ...
... wanted students "to feel but to feel in subordination to reason." Education, he told the new graduates, would improve woman's "rank in society, placing her as the rational companion of man, not the slave of his pleasures or the victim ...
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... wanted knowledge and to move up in the world ("Your eyes shall be opened," said the serpent, "and ye shall be as gods, knowing both good and evil"). The child in Anne Bradstreet's poem was not merely stained by the consequences of their ...
... wanted knowledge and to move up in the world ("Your eyes shall be opened," said the serpent, "and ye shall be as gods, knowing both good and evil"). The child in Anne Bradstreet's poem was not merely stained by the consequences of their ...
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