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Search - Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents

Welfare Reform in the Early Republic A Brief History with Documents
Author: Seth Rockman

In the decades following the American Revolution, elected officials, moral crusaders, and relief administrators scrutinized the public welfare programs that assisted thousands of impoverished people. Seth Rockman uses documents ranging from sermons to almshouse admission rolls to show how reformers investigated the causes of poverty and pursued ... more »solutions that ranged from massive institutionalization of the poor to the total abolition of public charity?issues that are remarkably similar to the welfare debates of today. Also included are headnotes to the documents, questions for consideration, an annotated chronology, suggestions for further reading, and an index. Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction: Poverty "in a Land Flowing with Milk and Honey" Poor Relief in Early America / The Growing Problem of Poverty and Its Victims / Religious Reform and Moral Benevolence / Public Responsibility for the Poor / Structural Solutions for Poverty / The Legacy of Welfare Reform / A Note about the Text Part II: The Documents Elite Perceptions of Poverty as a Moral and Social Crisis1. The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Public Economy, 18172. The New York Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, 18183. On Doing Good to the Poor, 1818 (Heman Humphrey)4. Of Intellectually and Morally Neglected Children, c. 1828 (Joseph Tuckerman)Private Benevolence and Moral Cures for Poverty5. The Friendly Society of St. Thomas's African Church, 17976. The Providence Female Society for the Relief of Indigent Women and Children, 18017. The Female Humane Association Charity School, 18038. Preacher to the Poor in New York, 1811 (Ezra Stiles Ely)9. The Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor, 181910. Subjects of the New York House of Refuge, 1825 183011. Letter to Graduates of the House of Refuge, 182912. Subjects of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum, 1837 1838Public Institutions13. Rules for the Government of the New York Almshouse, 180114. Rules and Regulations of the Salem Almshouse, 181615. The Boston House of Industry, 182116. Inmates of the Baltimore Almshouse, June 182517. Report of the Trustees of the Baltimore Almshouse, 182718. Philadelphia Board of Guardians of the Poor, 1827Structural Explanations and Cures for Poverty19. Petition of New Jersey Working Widows to the U.S. Senate, 181620. The Working People of New Castle County, Delaware, 182921. Rights of Man to Property, 1829 (Thomas Skidmore)22. Lecture on Existing Evils and Their Remedy, 1829 (Frances Wright)23. Address to the Wealthy of the Land, 1831 (Mathew Carey)24. The Manayunk Working People's Committee, 183325. On Wage Slavery, 1836 (Philadelphia National Laborer) Appendixes: A Chronology of Welfare Reform (1788 1840) / Questions for Consideration / Selected Bibliography

ISBN-13: 9781478622031
ISBN-10: 1478622032
Publication Date: 5/23/2014
Pages: 187
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
Book Type: Paperback
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