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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... took long years to settle on a career were seen as particularly susceptible to vice and dangerous ideas. Since the moral certainty that followed "rebirth" was held to be the most effective inoculation against temptation, a fashion for ...
... took long years to settle on a career were seen as particularly susceptible to vice and dangerous ideas. Since the moral certainty that followed "rebirth" was held to be the most effective inoculation against temptation, a fashion for ...
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... took a bad turn, or even just during seasonal lulls. Workingclass Americans were constantly losing their jobs through no fault of their own. Moreover, with no strong unions, pay remained low. At midcentury, when rents for the humblest ...
... took a bad turn, or even just during seasonal lulls. Workingclass Americans were constantly losing their jobs through no fault of their own. Moreover, with no strong unions, pay remained low. At midcentury, when rents for the humblest ...
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... took to drink. And in an era when women frequently died in childbirth and epidemics of cholera and typhoid fever regularly swept American cities — especially in poor, overcrowded, and unsanitary neighborhoods like Five Points — children ...
... took to drink. And in an era when women frequently died in childbirth and epidemics of cholera and typhoid fever regularly swept American cities — especially in poor, overcrowded, and unsanitary neighborhoods like Five Points — children ...
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... took a long walk alone on the beach this afternoon, — the old golden light on everything, with the blue, dreamy highlands, and the gray sky in the east, against which everything stood out so beautifully, the sea sparkling and deep blue ...
... took a long walk alone on the beach this afternoon, — the old golden light on everything, with the blue, dreamy highlands, and the gray sky in the east, against which everything stood out so beautifully, the sea sparkling and deep blue ...
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... mercies" would provide her with strong "inducements to do good"21), the primary reason she took a job at a rural school in Garrettsburg, Kentucky, was that she wanted to relieve her father of the financial burden of 42 ORPHAN TRAINS.
... mercies" would provide her with strong "inducements to do good"21), the primary reason she took a job at a rural school in Garrettsburg, Kentucky, was that she wanted to relieve her father of the financial burden of 42 ORPHAN TRAINS.
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