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Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Orphan Trains
Abandoned The Untold Story of the Orphan Trains
Author: Michael Keene
In 1848 famine gripped Ireland. Nearly a million people would die of starvation and typhoid fever. A million more Irish would abandon their homeland and come to America. Many settled in the area of Lower Manhattan called Five Points, infamous for its squalor, gang violence and disease. — By the end of the Civil War, an estimated 30,000 homeless c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780998850818
ISBN-10: 0998850810
Publication Date: 4/29/2017
Pages: 206
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Publisher: Ad-Hoc Productions
Book Type: Paperback
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