Orphan trains : the story of Charles Loring Brace and the children he saved and failed /
"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 Child...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2004
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| Edition: | University of Chicago Press ed |
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