The Mary Ellen Wilson Child Abuse Case and the Beginning of Childen's Rights in 19th Century America by Eric A. Shelman, Stephen Lazoritz

The Mary Ellen Wilson Child Abuse Case and the Beginning of Childen's Rights in 19th Century America

Eric A. Shelman, Stephen Lazoritz

247 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction history
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As recently as 1874, no laws yet existed in the United States for the protection of children. That year, the widely publicized case of Mary Ellen Wilson - a nine-year-old girl who had been a prisoner in her tenement home, enduring unimaginable cru...

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