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

Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed

Stephen O'Connor

384 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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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 radica...

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