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Author:
SenGupta, Gunja. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95032186
Title:
From slavery to poverty : the racial origins of welfare in New York, 1840-1918 / Gunja SenGupta.
Publisher:
New York University Press,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
xiv, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Public welfare--New York--New York--History.
African Americans--New York--New York--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-324) and index.
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.
ISBN:
0814740863
9780814740866
0814740618
9780814740613
OCLC:
(OCoLC)273815541
LCCN:
2008045882
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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