From slavery to poverty the racial origins of welfare in New York, 1840-1918 /

SenGupta, Gunja.

From slavery to poverty the racial origins of welfare in New York, 1840-1918 / [electronic resource] : Gunja SenGupta. - New York : New York University Press, c2009. - xiv, 335 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-324) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Public welfare--History.--New York (State)--New York
African Americans--History.--New York (State)--New York


Electronic books.

HV99.N59 / S43 2009

362.5/570890097471