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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... young teenagers. During the week the meetinghouse served as a school, but on that day, a Sunday, it was a Presbyterian church, and more than usually crowded, not only because the children had taken so many seats, but because the regular ...
... young teenagers. During the week the meetinghouse served as a school, but on that day, a Sunday, it was a Presbyterian church, and more than usually crowded, not only because the children had taken so many seats, but because the regular ...
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... young man beside the altar, whose enthusiasm, accent, and fluid gestures marked him as a city preacher. His name was E. P. Smith, and he was telling the audience about the organization he represented: the Children's Aid Society, which ...
... young man beside the altar, whose enthusiasm, accent, and fluid gestures marked him as a city preacher. His name was E. P. Smith, and he was telling the audience about the organization he represented: the Children's Aid Society, which ...
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... young beneficiaries religious guidance at Sunday meetings and vocational and academic instruction at its industrial schools. It also established the nation's first runaway shelter, the Newsboys' Lodging House, where vagrant boys ...
... young beneficiaries religious guidance at Sunday meetings and vocational and academic instruction at its industrial schools. It also established the nation's first runaway shelter, the Newsboys' Lodging House, where vagrant boys ...
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... young manhood was Frederick Law Olmsted, the celebrated designer of Central Park, and his social contacts included Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, and George Eliot. With all of his drive and ...
... young manhood was Frederick Law Olmsted, the celebrated designer of Central Park, and his social contacts included Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, and George Eliot. With all of his drive and ...
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... young men dead on a boxcar in Wyoming because, as he put it at his trial, he was lonely and cold and so far from home. A cautionary note: although the term "orphan trains" has a poetic resonance and a degree of recognition that made it ...
... young men dead on a boxcar in Wyoming because, as he put it at his trial, he was lonely and cold and so far from home. A cautionary note: although the term "orphan trains" has a poetic resonance and a degree of recognition that made it ...
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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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