The Charleston Orphan House : children's lives in the first public orphanage in America / John E. Murray.

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. From wealthy benefactors to the families who sought its assistance to the artisans and merchants who relied on its charges as appr...

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Main Author: Murray, John E., 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Series:Markets and governments in economic history.
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