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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... wrote shortly after Charles moved to New York, he explained: Very early I exposed you to danger, urged you to climb, to swim, to do many things that many parents thought wrong and dangerous, for the very purpose of so familiarizing you ...
... wrote shortly after Charles moved to New York, he explained: Very early I exposed you to danger, urged you to climb, to swim, to do many things that many parents thought wrong and dangerous, for the very purpose of so familiarizing you ...
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... wrote about this moral failing to his sister Emma, who, apart from his father, was his closest soulmate within the family. She responded: "I do not see why you cannot be ambitious and at the same time have this feeling in subservience ...
... wrote about this moral failing to his sister Emma, who, apart from his father, was his closest soulmate within the family. She responded: "I do not see why you cannot be ambitious and at the same time have this feeling in subservience ...
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... wrote: "[I]f I am going to do any good in life, I must begin by denying myself now."36 And to a friend: "I should like a less easy life, where there is more of responsibility and strong influence. For I think the firm Christian ...
... wrote: "[I]f I am going to do any good in life, I must begin by denying myself now."36 And to a friend: "I should like a less easy life, where there is more of responsibility and strong influence. For I think the firm Christian ...
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... wrote Brace to say how much he missed his "influence."40 And in 1848, just as Brace was about to move from New Haven to New York City, where the Olmsted brothers had already gone to live, Frederick wrote, "Let us help each other ...
... wrote Brace to say how much he missed his "influence."40 And in 1848, just as Brace was about to move from New Haven to New York City, where the Olmsted brothers had already gone to live, Frederick wrote, "Let us help each other ...
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... School, there were many who found Brace's religious speculations "dangerous." To one of these critics he wrote that the times when his faith was all "unsettled" were long past, and that, in any event, God was The Good Father 29.
... School, there were many who found Brace's religious speculations "dangerous." To one of these critics he wrote that the times when his faith was all "unsettled" were long past, and that, in any event, God was The Good Father 29.
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