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Orphan Trains : The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
Orphan Trains The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
Author: Stephen O'Connor
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 pro...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226616674
ISBN-10: 0226616673
Publication Date: 3/1/2004
Pages: 384
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Informative. Touching quotes from some of the children. Also, long and full of data.
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I really like true stories and this is one that I really enjoyed


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