Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-310) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Children of accident and mystery : foundlings in history and memory -- New York as a nursing mother : foundlings in the antebellum city -- The murder of the innocents : New York discovers its foundlings -- The basket at the door : the foundling asylums open -- Out-Heroding Herod : the foundlings and the revolutionary -- The end of the foundling asylums -- Conclusion : the foundling disappears--almost.
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Title
Abandoned.
International Standard Book Number
0814757251
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Abandoned children-- New York (State)-- New York-- History-- 19th century.