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Genre/Form: | e-books History Livres numériques |
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Additional Physical Format: | Version imprimée : Murray, John E., 1959- Charleston Orphan House. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John E Murray |
ISBN: | 9780226924106 0226924106 |
OCLC Number: | 1139868021 |
Description: | 1 ressource en ligne (xx, 268 pages) : illustrations. |
Contents: | Charleston -- Orphan house -- Families -- Education -- Sickness -- Leaving -- Apprenticeship -- Transitions -- Epilogue. |
Series Title: | Markets and governments in economic history |
Responsibility: | John E. Murray. |
Abstract:
The first public orphanage in America, the Charleston Orphan House saw to the welfare and education of thousands of children from poor white families in the urban South. This book provides an illuminating look at social welfare provision in the antebellum South.
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