Abandoned foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City /

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Autore principale: Miller, Julie, 1959-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New York : New York University Press, c2008.
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Sommario:
  • Children of accident and mystery : foundlings in history and memory
  • New York as a nursing mother : foundlings in the antebellum city
  • The murder of the innocents : New York discovers its foundlings
  • The basket at the door : the foundling asylums open
  • Out-Heroding Herod : the foundlings and the revolutionary
  • The end of the foundling asylums
  • Conclusion : the foundling disappears--almost.