The Orphan Train Movement: The History of the Program that Relocated Homeless Children Across America

The Orphan Train Movement: The History of the Program that Relocated Homeless Children Across America
ISBN-10
1530733626
ISBN-13
9781530733620
Category
Orphan trains
Language
English
Published
2016-03-27
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
Charles River Editors

Description

By the middle of the 19th century, New York City?s population surpassed the unfathomable number of 1 million people, despite its obvious lack of space. This was mostly due to the fact that so many immigrants heading to America naturally landed in New York Harbor, well before the federal government set up an official immigration system on Ellis Island. As a result, if a child was abandoned or orphaned, they were at the mercy of an ad hoc system of barely tolerable orphanages with little to no centralization. By coordinating with train companies, Brace was able to transport dozens of children at a time to places in the heartland of America or further out west, where they would end up in new homes, decades before the existence of foster care.

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