Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed by O'Connor, Stephen

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University of Chicago Press, 2004-03-01. Paperback. Very Good. Very good+ paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good. NOT an ex-library copy, NO remainder mark, NOT a book club. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. A fine copy. 2004 Trade Paperback. xxi, 362 pp. 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.

Paperback / softback. New. Appalled by the numbers of destitute children on the streets of New York, Charles Loring Brace created the Children's Aid Society and organised a programme of adoption across the US. Between 1854 and 1929 some 250,000 children were found homes in the country. This is his story, and theirs.

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Paperback / softback. New. Appalled by the numbers of destitute children on the streets of New York, Charles Loring Brace created the Children's Aid Society and organised a programme of adoption across the US. Between 1854 and 1929 some 250,000 children were found homes in the country. This is his story, and theirs.