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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... letters, and watching ships pass by under tan sails or plumes of black smoke. Fred Olmsted, occupied with farmwork from dawn until six in the evening on Saturday, would return to launch into debates with Charley that, fueled by good ...
... letters, and watching ships pass by under tan sails or plumes of black smoke. Fred Olmsted, occupied with farmwork from dawn until six in the evening on Saturday, would return to launch into debates with Charley that, fueled by good ...
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... letters he wrote from the island contained an extended meditation on the landscape that surrounded him and on its relationship to the divine. In the early spring of 1849 he wrote to his sister, who was then living in Georgia: My dear ...
... letters he wrote from the island contained an extended meditation on the landscape that surrounded him and on its relationship to the divine. In the early spring of 1849 he wrote to his sister, who was then living in Georgia: My dear ...
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... letter to their father that first evening: Emma came today. She is much better than she was at the South.... I think this air will benefit her, and Aunt Mary's kind care. If she will only be prudent, and I think she will. She is ...
... letter to their father that first evening: Emma came today. She is much better than she was at the South.... I think this air will benefit her, and Aunt Mary's kind care. If she will only be prudent, and I think she will. She is ...
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... letter to Fred Kingsbury, dwelling on details that perhaps he felt he could not mention to his father: There was a ... letters were full of meditations on the "inefficiency of religion" and particularly on that "Calvin piety" that sees ...
... letter to Fred Kingsbury, dwelling on details that perhaps he felt he could not mention to his father: There was a ... letters were full of meditations on the "inefficiency of religion" and particularly on that "Calvin piety" that sees ...
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... letter to John Olmsted in which he confessed his doubts, he also said that, for the first time in his life, he wished for his own death, so that he might be "some place where these pains and heartaches would be all over forevermore."30 ...
... letter to John Olmsted in which he confessed his doubts, he also said that, for the first time in his life, he wished for his own death, so that he might be "some place where these pains and heartaches would be all over forevermore."30 ...
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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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