Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed Paperback - 2004
by Stephen O'Connor
First line
I cannot speak of my parents with any certainty at all.
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In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children 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 firsthand accounts of orphans, Stephen O'Connor here tells of the orphan trains 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, Orphans Trains remains the definitive work on this little-known episode in American history.Details
- Title Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
- Author Stephen O'Connor
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2004-03-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226616674 / 0226616673
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.08 x 0.83 in (22.81 x 15.44 x 2.11 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Topical: Adoption
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Orphan trains - History, Brace, Charles Loring
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003057040
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.734
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Citations
- Kliatt, 09/01/2004, Page 47
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