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384 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226616674
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 March 2004
Description
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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384 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226616674
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 March 2004
Description
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...