Founder of the Children’s Aid Society, Brace describes the slums, street children and poverty of New York and the causes of crime he saw there. He recounts two decades of work: industrial schools, reading rooms, lodging houses for newsboys and homeless boys, and the placing of thousands of city children with farm families in the West.
A key source for the history of American social reform and the orphan trains, written from the front line in 1872. Download the free EPUB.