Orphan Trains

Name: Orphan Trains
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226616674
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The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed

Autor: Stephen O'Connor

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: The University of Chicago Press

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In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets....

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Autor

Stephen O'Connor

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2004

Stránok

384

EAN

9780226616674

ISBN

0226616673

Enbook ID

04548092

Vydavateľ

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnosť

592

Rozmery

159 x 228 x 23

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In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these youngsters into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the problem by creating the Children's Aid Society, an organization that fought to provide homeless children with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family in the country. Combining a biography of Brace with first-hand accounts of orphans, Stephen O'Connor here tells of the orphan trams that, between 1854 and 1929, spirited away some 250,000 destitute children to rural homes in every one of the forty-eight contiguous states. A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains remains the definitive work on this little-known episode in American history.

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