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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... boys and girls went to orphan train sponsoring organizations simply in search of work or a free ticket out of the city. The term "orphan trains" is also misleading because a substantial number of the placed-out children never took the ...
... boys and girls went to orphan train sponsoring organizations simply in search of work or a free ticket out of the city. The term "orphan trains" is also misleading because a substantial number of the placed-out children never took the ...
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... boys that I fell in company with would steal and swear, and of course I contracted those habits too. I have a distinct recollection of stealing up upon houses to tear lead from the chimneys, and then take it privily away to some junk ...
... boys that I fell in company with would steal and swear, and of course I contracted those habits too. I have a distinct recollection of stealing up upon houses to tear lead from the chimneys, and then take it privily away to some junk ...
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... Boys, but during the Brace family's tenure the village's most illustrious resident was the Congregational preacher Lyman Beecher — the father not only of Catharine and Harriet but also of the celebrated (and at times infamous) liberal ...
... Boys, but during the Brace family's tenure the village's most illustrious resident was the Congregational preacher Lyman Beecher — the father not only of Catharine and Harriet but also of the celebrated (and at times infamous) liberal ...
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... boys' academies. In one subject area Litchfield girls clearly exceeded their counterparts at the male schools, and that was moral philosophy, which boys were not expected to study until college. Although John Brace was far from being ...
... boys' academies. In one subject area Litchfield girls clearly exceeded their counterparts at the male schools, and that was moral philosophy, which boys were not expected to study until college. Although John Brace was far from being ...
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... boys, he desisted.24 With all of his indulgence of Charles's intellectual curiosity, John Brace was very capable of being hard on his son, even cruel, in the interest of developing fortitude and self-control. In a letter John wrote ...
... boys, he desisted.24 With all of his indulgence of Charles's intellectual curiosity, John Brace was very capable of being hard on his son, even cruel, in the interest of developing fortitude and self-control. In a letter John wrote ...
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