Orphan Trains Rescued New York's Homeless Children | History
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- Faced with a crisis of orphans on New York City streets, Charles Brace devised a solution - send these children out for adoption in towns across the Midwest. By the end of the Orphan Train program, over 200,000 children had been placed with new families. #HistoryChannel
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My great grandfather became an orphan in NYC and he was put on an Orphan Train. He was sold to a dairy farmer in Pennsylvania who beat him and treated him horribly. When he reached the age of 13 or perhaps 14 or perhaps 12 he never knew his age, he ran away and hiked from Pennsylvania to Arkansas and was terrified that he would be arrested and returned because it was illegal to run away from your master in the North. That is what happened with the Orphan train.
Shhhh - That doesn't fit the narrative. I feel for your great grandfather. That must have been terrifying for him.
😢😢
@@Jamestele1 He was afraid that they would find him and he refused to ever leave the state. It was extremely traumatizing.
This fits the slave narrative
@@lovedenaro6729shhh you can’t say that there were white slaves. Doesn’t fit the narrative
This was the largest event of child trafficking and we want to know where all the immigrant children are going today. Why are they being flown in at night and why aren’t the sponsors being vetted? 😢
"rescued"
Plenty of those kids had family in NYC and never saw them again.
Tom Russel has a great (though sad) song about this called "Rider on an Oprhan Train"
I like that point of view
Die TRAINS dienten nur zur Besiedelung von Städten !!! Der , der sucht erkennt die Wahrheit ! Grüße aus Deutschland
Their families were put in insane asylums. They made the orphans and then “saved” them.
My parents would always threatened me with this but i had no idea what they were speaking about.
Tell the truth history channel.
They were exploited as a slave labor force and abused.
@@kishascapefalse.
Sounds like child trafficking to me
From poverty to slavery
Poverty = slavery in my eyes
thank you. someone thinks on their toes.
The life in a Sanctuary City!
Exactly- not sure why they are trying to spin this as good. The Odd Fellows connection says it all.
The intentions were in the right place and I’m sure many kids found a much better life. I’m sure most kids turned out for the better compared to them all being stuck in the NY slums.
They were treated HORRIBLY!!!! 😔😔😔
after STOLEN from their parents
@@HisgGaloreTheir parents were more than likely put into asylums, then the children became orphaned and trafficked.
The orphans were the children of the Tartarians that built our old world before the mud flood. The orphans were put to work digging out these grand Tartarian buildings from that flood. Almost every city has one of these Tartarian buildings from the old world and you know them as your old downtown courthouse or jail. You will be able to pick them out easily because the windows are halfway under ground and the other half of the windows are sticking outta the ground and nobody builds any structures with windows halfway in and out of the dirt, it makes no sense. We now call them Victorian buildings but the craftsmanship even today cannot be duplicated even with all the technology we have, we will never be able to compare ourselves to the craftsman of the old world.
I believe this! I know we aren’t being told the truth. What timeframe do you believe this to be most prevalent?
Now are these different from the lizard people?😂😂😂
@@katwil89 can you explain more about these lizard people?
@@katwil89 you want to make light of a situation to draw attention away from it.
Incubator babies
Slavery without the need to purchase ?? Many of these children were mistreated, worked to death, second class status in adopting families, denied medical care over money, under fed so the biological family had enough to eat, physically and sexually abused, and the list goes on. These children, for the most part, were injected into a future life of abuse. The “Few” who were taken in by caring families were the minority of the group.
Times were tough during that time period in America and the destination of these children were no better off financially than where they left on the average. Farmers worked from sun up until sundown and later if they had lanterns and needed to complete a task. Even their own children were worked to the bone so you can imagine how a immigrant free child worker would be treated. The only psychological support left to these children were their biological siblings and they were intentionally separated to break this last bond.
On the surface this gives you the impression that a great humanitarian deed was accomplished but under the surface the African Black shipped to America was arriving at a new destination for the same purpose.
Just listened to all of this on a comedy American history podcast called “The Dollop.” I couldn’t believe the story, there’s even more to it, it was pretty upsetting
I recommend reading "orphan train" by Christina B. Kline. It is a fiction book but it was heavily inspired by the authors grandmothers experience as a orphan train kid. Very wonderful book I read in school.
i can see jumping off someplace warm and clean and passing on being 'adopted' into servitude.
My great grandfather took off from the people who bought him and hiked to Arkansas and live in fear that he would be caught and returned to his masters. It tore my heart out to hear that. This slavery happened in the 20th century!
@annabellelee4535 this wasn't slavery. Would you rather he died cold and hungry on the street? Child death was high in those times. Plenty of kids loves their new families.
Yeah and we see what a success foster care is.
One of my great great grandfathers came on the orphan train to Iowa area
What did he say happened to him?
Was he taken from his parents? Was there a catastrophe?
@@KT-bg7dq His mother died, his father didn't want him to grow up without a mother, that's what I've been told.
Lucky that he wasn't abused into forced labor.
@@grant8928 because thats what they lied and told him 😢
Ain't nobody could get jealous of me!!!!!
I love children 😍❤️💓🥰☺️🥰☺️
Biggest load of garbage… We still don’t know where all those kids came from. None of it makes sense.
This is something I didn't even how. Great video, keep making quality content.
Can you please send me in I just love do be possible to be orphan Mystery Myself before can come get me you get me
If you believe what they say in here, you still don’t know.
Why do these Orphan Train videos always attack the mud people?
I put this in my FYI list
I had a school play on this
Today is not good
And adults
The orphan train book brought me here. Beautiful novel.
Some of the most iconic people either were adopted or bad parential guidence !!!
Lori lee Hastings Like Arnold Schwarzenegger growing up in a home that had no phone and no toilet, or Charles Dickens’s dad going to debtor’s prison, I think, it’s not having those things that later sparked their passions.
Wow, there's only a handful of uploads abput this, other than "conspiracy theorist" videos, and all of the "real" putlets have the comments turned off, but this one doesn't!!
orphan trains were all over world not only US, same pattern.
Am i the only one that actually is watching this because I had to.
😆 I hope you get an A+!
@@renplease4322 I did
Saying rescued is insane lmao
I’m only here for American history distance learning :/
Put up on a platform like slaves?
They were indentured servants. They would be free when they reached the age of 26. Until then, they were slaves.
Not very accurate account
HIS STORY what a bunch of bologna!