Abandoned
Subtitle: foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City
By: Julie Miller.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780814757253; 9780814757260
Subjects: Abandoned children -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Children of accident and mystery : foundlings in history and memory; title: New York as a nursing mother : foundlings in the antebellum city; title: The murder of the innocents : New York discovers its foundlings; title: The basket at the door : the foundling asylums open; title: Out-Heroding Herod : the foundlings and the revolutionary; title: The end of the foundling asylums; title: Conclusion : the foundling disappears; title: almost.