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Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Miller, Julie

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General SociologyGeneral World HistoryRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 081475726X
ISBN13: 9780814757260
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

Two interesting items:
The author's article in New York Archives
A letter regarding foundlings in The Riverdale Press
In the nineteenth century, foundlings--children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth--were commonplace in European society. There were asylums in every major city to house abandoned babies, and writers made them the heroes of their fiction, most notably Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. In American cities before the Civil War the situation was different, with foundlings relegated to the poorhouse instead of institutions designed specifically for their care. By the eve of the Civil War, New York City in particular had an epidemic of foundlings on its hands due to the rapid and often interlinked phenomena of urban development, population growth, immigration, and mass poverty. Only then did the city's leaders begin to worry about the welfare and future of its abandoned children.

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