From slavery to poverty
Subtitle: the racial origins of welfare in New York, 1840-1918
By: Gunja SenGupta.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780814740613; 9780814740866
Subjects: Public welfare -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Subaltern worlds in antebellum New York; title: The white republic and "workfare" : Blackwell's island; title: Not white, but worthy : maternalists and the "pious poor" of the colored home; title: The color of juvenile justice : the New York House of Refuge; title: Celtic sisters, Saxon keepers : class, whiteness, and the women of the Hopper home; title: Black voluntarism and American identities : the Howard Orphanage and Industrial School.