Abandoned foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.