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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... believed most virtuous, could infuse "moral death" into their children, family, and friends. What is striking is that, rather than acknowledging the onerousness of this burden, Bushnell seemed to grow excited by it. His recommendation ...
... believed most virtuous, could infuse "moral death" into their children, family, and friends. What is striking is that, rather than acknowledging the onerousness of this burden, Bushnell seemed to grow excited by it. His recommendation ...
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... believed that, if not in the past, then certainly in the present, his father had so supremely mastered his own being that he was never distracted during sermons or, perhaps, on any other occasion. It is hard to imagine even the most ...
... believed that, if not in the past, then certainly in the present, his father had so supremely mastered his own being that he was never distracted during sermons or, perhaps, on any other occasion. It is hard to imagine even the most ...
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... believed that good conscience and good works mattered more to one's ultimate salvation than doctrinal purity or even faith itself. In many ways Frederick Law Olmsted was precisely the sort of young man who had helped spawn a fashion ...
... believed that good conscience and good works mattered more to one's ultimate salvation than doctrinal purity or even faith itself. In many ways Frederick Law Olmsted was precisely the sort of young man who had helped spawn a fashion ...
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... believed, "family government" was a more appropriate metaphor for God's relationship to humanity: A father governs by love. His will may be all, for a time, the children know of right. He does, to a degree, know the hearts of his ...
... believed, "family government" was a more appropriate metaphor for God's relationship to humanity: A father governs by love. His will may be all, for a time, the children know of right. He does, to a degree, know the hearts of his ...
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... resentment that flourished within them, were wholly European artifacts, impossible within a democratic republic. And almost everyone believed that these were only tempo rary aberrations that would clear up as soon as the 34 ORPHAN TRAINS.
... resentment that flourished within them, were wholly European artifacts, impossible within a democratic republic. And almost everyone believed that these were only tempo rary aberrations that would clear up as soon as the 34 ORPHAN TRAINS.
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