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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... least, Lyman Beecher presided over Charles's childhood and youth as an exemplar — a man who made the career of activist-minister a compelling possibility. John Pierce Brace, Charles's father, first knew Lyman Beecher as a landlord. John ...
... least, Lyman Beecher presided over Charles's childhood and youth as an exemplar — a man who made the career of activist-minister a compelling possibility. John Pierce Brace, Charles's father, first knew Lyman Beecher as a landlord. John ...
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... least the cordial respect of the famous minister, if for no other reason than that Brace was the favorite teacher of Beecher's younger daughter, Harriet. In her autobiography, Stowe called John Brace "one of the most stimulating and ...
... least the cordial respect of the famous minister, if for no other reason than that Brace was the favorite teacher of Beecher's younger daughter, Harriet. In her autobiography, Stowe called John Brace "one of the most stimulating and ...
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... least intuitively, that in most ways life would have gone on unchanged in their homes without them, affluent women increasingly tied their sense of self-worth to the non-economically productive aspects of their lives — to their roles as ...
... least intuitively, that in most ways life would have gone on unchanged in their homes without them, affluent women increasingly tied their sense of self-worth to the non-economically productive aspects of their lives — to their roles as ...
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... least some French, German, Spanish, and Latin, and he also had received instruction in mathematics, biology, botany, entomology, and geology, but not much in chemistry or physics. John Brace was so devoted to his son that he would often ...
... least some French, German, Spanish, and Latin, and he also had received instruction in mathematics, biology, botany, entomology, and geology, but not much in chemistry or physics. John Brace was so devoted to his son that he would often ...
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... least in the mind of young Charles — for him to believe that virtue must be entirely selfless. One could not be truly good if one performed even the most apparently moral acts for any reason other than to serve God or humanity ...
... least in the mind of young Charles — for him to believe that virtue must be entirely selfless. One could not be truly good if one performed even the most apparently moral acts for any reason other than to serve God or humanity ...
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