From slavery to poverty : the racial origins of welfare in New York, 1840-1918 / / Gunja SenGupta.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 335 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Subaltern worlds in antebellum New York
- The white republic and "workfare" : Blackwell's island
- Not white, but worthy : maternalists and the "pious poor" of the colored home
- The color of juvenile justice : the New York House of Refuge
- Celtic sisters, Saxon keepers : class, whiteness, and the women of the Hopper home
- Black voluntarism and American identities : the Howard Orphanage and Industrial School.