The Orphan Trains

In the 1800s, the railroads faced a problem -- farm labor shortages along their newly expanded westward lines threatened profitability. Not surprisingly, in 1853, they jumped at the chance to support a New York City minister's idea--an early version of foster care that would find homes for the city's orphans on farms in the Midwest. Until the program ended in 1929, more than a quarter of a million abandonded, homeless, and orphaned children were taken from the streets, tenements, and orphanages of New York City and sent to uncertain futures with strangers.
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[@Hitngan]

1850's children of the last Great Reset.

[@bobdangdole883]

Supposedly around the mud flood reset there are photos of all the major cities with tons of buildings but no one on the streets... weird.

[@mclum77]

They're running late arent they? Its pst the 100 year mark. I'd heard the 70's was to be but there was a snag ... until the plan 2030 & 2050 ... 😔

[@meggtokyodelicious]

@@bobdangdole883 they all petrified. Check vatican ceiling statues, basilica, Italy ponds. They are all there. And the small ones are cloones

[@meggtokyodelicious]

@@mclum77 it's happening. Cloones, androids, robotoidds are amongst us already. Biden is a robotoidds. Dollywood uses cloones since many were executed between March to October 2020. Check Adele, Oprah, , oh Tom cruise fired in October 2013. Current it is a clooone.

[@jkane764]

@@meggtokyodelicious "Check Adele, Oprah, , oh Tom cruise fired in October 2013." - you are saying Oprah, Cruise and Adele are clones ....

[@texcan]

My Grandmother was sent on an Orphan Train to KC, MO. She was in an orphanage in NYC before that. She was treated so badly and abused and as a slave basically, that she ran away several times. Many years later, after she was grown, she had 2 brothers that remembered they had a baby sister and they found her!

[@Veso27]

texcan I’m so glad her brothers found her.

[@carolweaver3269]

Texcan that is so much like my grandmother. She was in an orphanage with her siblings in the one that is located or was on the Hastings on the Hudson in NYS. They had Cottage mothers. But they were not acting usually as mothers. My grandmother's brother found his siblings when they were grown and they did meet each other finally. The dad was not able to take care of the children after his wife passed away.

[@carolemosher1186]

Heard about the Orphan Train through local history, KC, MO. Fascinating, not many know about this practice.

[@robertogiovanelli1709]

Beautiful

[@rmorris1904]

What year was she born? I'm starting to think my father was on the orphan train... Has nobody knows his background in our family...

[@ettydavis]

I'm glad to see comments about the true history and not a cover up like the narrator is reading. Reset mudflood. In every country around the world.

[@homepreachhome]

I would like to read the book I suspect it would cut through more of the whitewash than could be allowed in video format on any mainstream platform, that is my hope anyhow for someone who had access to interview so many of the train personnel.

[@meggtokyodelicious]

Check Jonlevi, Michelle Gibson, autodidact 2, red Spartan,the tartarian meltdown, stuffed beagle, etc.... They have similar vids.

[@stankygeorge]

Do you have any proof of this or is this just another fairy tail from the Swamp! Ever notice when a glitch is spotted in the 'Official Narrative', like magic a cover story is conjured up to fill that void!

[@mrs.harris933]

Yes she’s delusional

[@keepingthefaith9041]

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.. Betty.

[@michelehofstetter4803]

I met & spoke with one of these orphans when he was an old man. He spoke very highly of his adoptive parents, who raised him as their only child, gave him a wonderful childhood, sent him to college, & left him the family farm. He & his wife still worked it with help from their children. The whole time we were talking, a scruffy little dog followed him everywhere around his property. I commented on the dog's obvious devotion to him & he told me "He showed up in the fields one day & just followed me back to the house. I took him in like my parents took me in. It worked out good this time, too ..."

[@littlefurballs]

That’s a sweet story. Thanks for sharing 🙂

[@brandyb2931]

I saw a PBS video before this one, a man and his brother were taken home off then train by a farmer to live with him, his wife and 2 daughters. He said they gave him and his brother a very good home and even though he found his father later in life, he always considered his adopted parents as his mother and father. Not all of these kids has a bad time of it.

[@rose4490]

@@brandyb2931 I saw the video on that story earlier today, that was a good story!

[@Vaga-Bard]

@@brandyb2931 if his real father was alive, how was he an orphan?

[@mizzwanned]

@@Vaga-Bard in those times even if one parent died they took the kids away

[@kevlarthewelderreclaimyour1049]

Why were there 30,000 children living on the streets? She gave some reasons. None of them really explained why. Also, in most cases these kids were slaves. These kids were bought to be slaves. So it is better that kids be sold to strangers as slaves, than being on the streets as free and independent individuals. This was about the Hegelian Dialectic. Those in power created a problem, (wars, famine, job loss, homelessness). The reaction or the result of that would be thousands of kids out on the streets. The solution, which was not spontaneous at all. It was planned from the start. Was to legally and justifiably make money from slavery. While portraying it to the American public like this was some great and caring philanthropic effort to get these kids into great homes with loving families. It was done under the guise of philanthropy. Just like most plots and schemes the powers that shouldn’t be pull off. It’s an extremely sad travesty. One which is not taught in schools and the majority of Americans have no idea this took place. The only time that historical instances of slavery will be taught in schools is when they can use it to push a current political or social agenda.

[@mclum77]

I often wonder, how do "they" have so many ppl to pull their agenda off?

[@JuanTorres-ny9ff]

Even if adults decided not to breed and have children, those in power would seek ways children would be born.

[@chrism8180]

@@mclum77 it is broken up into various divisions. Similar to how job interviews play out, different ranks will undergo various tests to condition them and see if they'll fit the role. If not they get rid of them. Once people are in their roles, they often don't care about the bigger picture or grander implications of what they are doing because they are getting a steady paycheck. Only a small portion of people formulate plans, and everything is so compartmentalized that one party won't know (or care to know) what the next is doing. You hear the term " need to know basis", "national security", "trade secrets", all that jazz is just to keep a veil of secrecy and discourage people from communicating. And if you are inquisitive, they sniff that out to make sure you never get too close to anything.

[@mclum77]

@@chrism8180 yes, a veil. Someday, it will fall. 🙏

[@newlycreated1864]

They don't mention it because they're still doing this. In some states, like CA, it is more profitable to adopt children out to strangers than to family members. Shake the foundation, the core of who a person is, cut off their roots, and you have sterile, scared, obedient slaves. Do you really believe abuse of children is so rampant that the police can't handle the few actual cases, and that actual family couldn't/ wouldn't take kids in? They make big bucks trafficking children through family court. I'm sorry if you're reading this and you're a "noble foster parent." I've heard stories of newborns being ripped from their mothers when they're hours old. Look at how many kids are up for adoption in each state and ask yourself why there are more in CA, and other similar states, if you know what I mean.

[@osamabenladen4262]

I love how she talks up the dude who started this as if he and this foundation were humanitarian and philanthropic. This was for MONEY, and the horrible things this poor human trafficker socialite robber baron had to witness in HIS city

[@Lynndog30]

Exactly first form of trafficking

[@Narsty_Boy]

Don't you know? That's all philanthropy is.

[@rondanew9916]

I had a client in early 1976 that was adopted in the 1920s I couldn't understand why see wouldn't look at the mirror as I styled her hair. She told me she was to ugly to look at her self. So sad. And her adopted parents parents hated to look at her☹️. She was in her late 80s She was mentally and physically abused.she died thinking she was of no value.

[@keepingthefaith9041]

You probably don't understand the " Mud Flood" modern giants.. incubation Hospitals.. ( almost) Every city & town in America & the world, has a different past then what we were told. Free electricity, Almost all the railways were layed from the past, Not modern 1800's days . Look up the history if you can find it.

[@ThomasShelby-cq7st]

​@@keepingthefaith9041 im curious if this is new information? all around me i see history changing before my eyes. churches burning down, statues being removed or ripped down for various social reasons....seems like there is more and more new very detailed informations of history being passed around everyday.

[@kevinbbadd]

child slavery. "your parents aren't your parents. your life begins when you are chosen" wtf. definitely a reset

[@MrJm323]

"Child slavery." Because children are naturally free to run around, to sign contracts, to take jobs and rent apartments or buy homes, to pursue careers, etc.. Children are, of course, under someone's legal custody or guardianship. If the parents NEGLECT the children (allow them to run about on the streets, committing petty crimes, join gangs, etc. -- in other words, become street urchins), even TODAY they will be taken from the parents by CPS, and the courts may rule the termination of the biological parents' legal custody. ....If the country in which this happens is an economically undeveloped one (with a small middle class, a huge number of impoverished families, work being done by hard physical labor instead of machines), then THIS (the Orphan Trains) is going to be the solution ...and WAS the solution in practically all countries prior to mature development. (In Switzerland, this was know as "Verdingkinder" and was ended in the 1960s; in Britain they had indentured servitude and apprenticeships, etc.) If you tell your child to "feed the cat" or "set the dinner table" or to help with farm chores ...or... if you own a small restaurant (and in the days prior to restrictive labor laws) and have your children washing the dishes or bussing the tables, ...is that "child slavery" -- even though the kid's doing it because you've told him to do it? ...??!?

[@doctorofart]

Did any of the train riders say what happened to them? How were they orphaned? Something seems strange, why so many orphans? Enough to send out train loads. Why are all the train riders close in age? Shouldn’t there of continued to be train riders over the years? Why all in one clump of time? Was there some type of catastrophic loss of life in adults that happened at the same time? So many unanswered questions. So many oddities and anomalies in the orphan train story.

[@dontheavatar]

it makes you wonder

[@beckyboop3517]

Poverty

[@doctorofart]

@@beckyboop3517 doesn’t make sense to me, unless there was a catastrophic reason for so many to be so poor and hungry and destitute to give up your child. Something happened. Plus the children didn’t look malnourished or unclothed. Many photos show them dressed well.

[@reginabillotti]

"How were they orphaned? " Some people died. Unmarried women generally gave up babies. Some parents were in jail. Some were too poor to take care of their children. "Why are all the train riders close in age? " Who says they were? "Shouldn’t there of continued to be train riders over the years? " There were. The program ran from the 1850s to the 1930s. "Was there some type of catastrophic loss of life in adults that happened at the same time?" In some cases, yes - the Civil War and World War I resulted in lots of children losing their fathers.

[@jkane764]

@@reginabillotti There were other YT people who spoke of the World Fairs. At the World Fairs, there were Infantoriums (where babies were sold). There were so many. No one seemed to know where they came from.

[@paulgeorge9228]

"your past is not your past" so true, our true history is lost and manipulated

[@GeneralAlex4]

Yeah, you know when they destroy old building from the 1800's built with high craftsmanship and marble that there covering up history.

[@polemius01]

Yet another important aspect of US history that is not taught.

[@polemius01]

@Pravati Barua You did not need to tell me that you are not educated. It is quite obvious.

[@SuperBikeRacer7]

I can only imagine how many of these children were adopted for exploitation, whether being overworked or sexually abused, and bet some completely disappeared.

[@3monsters014]

They were marked like this girl will be good cooks,house cleaners,help with the small children,and boys were told they would make good worker's. Just like the foster care system today some were chosen to be victims and others were chosen to be loved.

[@govdid195g7]

Well they did say they were taken to a Masonic lodge. And we all know what the Masons are about.😩

[@govdid195g7]

@@3monsters014 This breaks my heart!!!! 😭😭😭

[@PacificNorthwest360]

PatriciaAnnHine32276669 Don’t be too deceived to even believe the Towers were full of people. Look into ‘Hollow Towers’. These trade towers had a skeleton crew of folks, they weren’t full of offices and workers. Deception is very tricky. Cheers Olympia WA

[@govdid195g7]

@@PacificNorthwest360This is my first time hearing of this. I'mma check it out. TFS ❤️

[@iskeepsitreal]

I believe these trains happened, but not for the reasons stated.

[@evaldas_klupsas]

beLIEve

[@randomango2789]

Why?

[@Aknayelth]

Mudflood and the Tartarian Empire

[@randomango2789]

@@Aknayelth So you believe that this mud flood explanation that has no witnesses is more realistic than the one shown in the video?

[@chrism8180]

@@randomango2789 yeah, the funny thing is, they all parrot the same talking points. I'm onboard with the history we know being fabricated. But I'm not just going to jump on the first alternative theory that exists, especially one with lots of holes. Basically how I think it works is they harvest the collective ideas of the best minds out there, steal them through legal framework, create a conflict (war) clean slate, and integrate new tech into the world. But only if they can profit and make money off it.

[@delbedinotti6622]

The author's alleged story of why there were orphan trains is absolutely ridiculous. The real reason is written below by many other commentators.

[@garettdavis5161]

I've never even heard of these trains before ! My family came to CA during the dust bowl and I know history is a lie .I had to search orphans in the late 1800s specifically to learn of this .I suppose a happy slave is the one who thinks hes free. The nerve of the commentary in this disgrace of information is absolutely sickening. .... I'm lost for words.

[@Labrynth_Lover]

What do you mean, she tells you the origin and the intentions but quickly lets us know this was a road to hell is paved with good intentions story. She even calls it out and says these kids were slaves. Are you not paying attention ?

[@DavidSmith-qf3sm]

Children were used in mills as they were small enough to get in between the loom/cotton machines. In England Cadbury’s and Rowntree gave schooling and proper housing to his children and women that worked for him. Slave labour still exists in sweat shops for most clothing manufacturers. Women and children are still used. The only thing that has sadly changed is where the child slave labour takes place.

[@dergutehut3961]

What is ridiculous about a thing (foster parenting) that is still going on in a slightly different form?

[@kreeperfrm559]

The reset and repopulating earth, remember the the incubators with live babies during the world fairs and world expositions

[@nexusebtuoy]

On farm's, YOU MEAN the abandoned cities , EDUCATE yourself foundlings, tartaria mud floods.

[@lajphd]

30,000 kids on the streets of new york? Gonna need a little more explanation of that one...not adding up

[@leroyfann5700]

aaand that is just new york...

[@trip4923]

Many were Civil War orphans.

[@GeneralAlex4]

@@trip4923 1850 dude.

[@crystalkappel7032]

Look at the insane asylums

[@KKP-]

The trains stopped at all the Masonic Lodges and the locals lined up to “find good dark hands” I had a great aunt that took in many train riders. These children were horribly abused

[@rmorris1904]

Who are these elite??

[@Francois_Dupont]

@@rmorris1904 WHO?? WHO??

[@dont.ripfuller6587]

I have a list but I can't put photos in KZbin comments and I'm not flipping back and forth to type these names out sorry 😔 imagine someone will spout off and I'll get riled up and do it anyway just not this minute

[@mstrikesback168]

​@@rmorris1904 surely you know who they are by now? the R 0thschi lds are one of them. Join G A B. Sooo many people on that site know the truth. Theres no banning and its the only true free speech social media site so people can freely share without fear of being banned or shadowbanned, not like here. Notice I had to space out some letters. YT no likey us sharing truth about certain topics. Join G a. b. and you'll learn more in 30 days that you have in the last 30 months. But hold on, alot of these red pill truths will shock you and your cognitive dissonance might kick in. You have to push through that. Truth fears n0 investigati0n.

[@looselipssinkships333]

@@mstrikesback168 I went through that stage last year finding out all the madness and lies of the world and what there plan is had a pa ice attack at one point then went mad trying to wake people then thought shit I wish I didn't know then thought atleast I know. Now I see everything they do. And I want everyone to see

[@ckswat77zz51]

My Grandmother and her brother were put on an orphan train from PA to Buffalo, NY. Horrific! She and my Great Uncle Pete went through hell in the orphanage and after being taken in to be slaves. I thank God for her. She was an inspiration to me and my family. I thank God she turned a bad situation into being happy and thankful to God for the joys in her life, not the ugly, bad stuff. She and my greatuncle Pete we’re awesome. I miss them daily and can’t wait to see them again in Heaven.

[@govdid195g7]

Maybe you can write a book. You caught my attention,I think it would be nice to dedicate it to your grandmother & Uncle Pete.❤️

[@jodistovall2937]

Mine too..

[@veronicavalentini70]

@@govdid195g7 Yes exactly - and to ckswat77 zz, please see my recent comment and feel free to contact me with your relatives stories. I can relate, doing what I can to get a documentary/film out there and am seeking witnesses/relatives of the orphans. Believe me, I understand EXACTLY where you're coming from.

[@carolweaver3269]

God bless you. You know my grandmother and her brother and disasters too went to the orphanage and they wet to the Hastings On The Hudson Orphanage. Grandma was born in 1900. But it was not very nice. They did not have children's laws. They had Cottage Mothers and it was a Christina orphanage but they were not so nice to the children. My grandmother had long Blonde curly hair and they cut it off saying " She had too much pride" Locked her in the attic into a Cistern area. When grown they did help them get a trade and they had a choice of staying and becoming and Cottage mother or leaving. Grandma went to Cooking school. She wanted to go to the Nursing school, but they ran out of the room and did not need any more students for that. She id very well with the cooking though! You are right it was not easy for any of the children at all!

[@chrism8180]

You realize "God" created those horrors for her as well right?

[@jeffmech600]

30,000 children with no parents? what happened to their families? something wrong with our history

[@reginabillotti]

Unmarried mothers, parents who died, parents who didn't have enough money to keep the children, parents in jail or with problems like alcoholism, et cetera.

[@mmafish1681]

look up mud flood (great reset)

[@mstrikesback168]

@@reginabillotti Yep. Sounds like a problem that isnt happening today. If we did have unmarried mothers and poor people that died, we'd have 30k orphans running around. And since theres no orphans, theres no unmarried mothers or dying poor people!

[@reginabillotti]

@@mstrikesback168 Didn't say that those things don't happen today, but society's approach to those situations has changed.

[@randomango2789]

@@mmafish1681 What makes you think that it was mud floods? Many of these children grew up to be interviewed and they never mentioned any world events that involved mud floods or Tataria

[@1stcwp]

So many orphaned kids after the mass vaccinations

[@slcoly1]

Kidnapped children!!! Still going on today! This woman sounds so happy about this!

[@moodypet8837]

Children are still trafficked in mass underground today. The military has been blowing up and flooding tunnels for past 6 years.

[@peacefamily212]

Sick woman

[@demitraferles7970]

This is a pretence of helping children. It was adults helping themselves to free slave labour.

[@gardenjoy5223]

Life was hard work in general. Born on a farm, the kids would help continuously from a very young age. Starving from hunger and cold on the abusive streets of the slums in the big city were hardly ideal. Get a grip.

[@DissidentClipper]

@@gardenjoy5223 i like the way you think

[@gardenjoy5223]

@@DissidentClipper Thanks. It helps to be educated. Gives a broader perspective, than just this tiny window in space called the 21rst century, and then even in the so-called developed countries.

[@valor101arise]

You're brainwashed like the rest of them. Its a perspective, not fact

[@AnitaD28]

Sounds like child trafficking .... so heartbreaking. :-(

[@JuanTorres-ny9ff]

More likely.

[@chrism8180]

And it was

[@truther627]

Exactly what it was! Child trafficking has been happening a very long time!

[@rebeccaryan5030]

Wonder who was profiting from this

[@krisr777]

No doubt about it. Follow the 💰 the rabbit hole runs deep

[@aaronmughal1493]

Here's a good question. Where did all these orphans come from?

[@YouSuprised]

They are the survivors of the destruction of the many nations of the true children of Abraham. We are living currently in the System of the Beast that will become the System of the Anti-Christ at the end. Know who you are! The remnant is in critical danger.

[@jkane764]

"Where did all these orphans come from" - what happens when the pet shops are no longer able to sell puppies or kittens because they have grown too big? I am starting to wonder if those Infantoriums were more like a place where you pick puppies (or kittens) - as the babies were for sale. But - why would anyone need to buy a baby in the first place?

[@GeneralAlex4]

@@jkane764 I never though of that. Great point! In Coney Island or one of those world fairs or both they had baby incubator and orphans exhibits . That what the photo showed. You might be partially right.

[@lmvath211]

I find a lot of comfort finding sooooo many of your are Not of the collective mind and awakened to reality. Sad but feels like a hug

[@maricogan2903]

My grandfather Imil Patrick Nussburger, Was placed on an orphan train in New York. No one picked him until the train arrived in New Mexico. He lived in the bunk house as a cow hand. at 12-13 y/o he ran away, hopping freight cars across the country until he returned to NY.

[@truther627]

I'm so grateful he made it home! Hope he has a good life! Sending love, light, peace and strength from Sarasota Florida. 🙏💚☀️✌️💪✝️

[@andew8922]

Just think about all the trauma they had to go through at such a young age

[@govdid195g7]

Child labor is slavery 😭 awful! Just awful!

[@joeconrad9147]

@@govdid195g7 how the hell did you come up with that name 9 months ago , about as odd as this bs explanation of these orphans

[@joeconrad9147]

@@govdid195g7 this blows my mind

[@scots4trump465]

It's still happening

[@kaylegirvin184]

Makes me wanna cry.

[@bdub1785]

Find truth in the small details, 5:50, “they were good people, but they were not my people”. Where did “her” people go?

[@KingRDC]

i would really like to know where they all went too man... anyone has a clue? i see someone says they were in asylum....

[@numberyanbitch]

She will have been moved from another country after being in an asylum then 'treated' for what she knew of what became of her country and moved on, think tower of babel, stops countries passing down tales of the horrors some are going through to this day.

[@beefjefferson3716]

I am still wondering where they came from and where were they being kept before boarding the trains. Who was going to get the children when it was determined they were orphans. Also it is hard to believe that every one of those kids were abandoned or given away.

[@mstrikesback168]

AEwar channel on YT is working on a documentary right now to answer that question. He's currently has 3 episodes out. Cant wait for 4!

[@CaroleanneWright]

Check out the incubator babies x

[@marieellender1389]

@@CaroleanneWright OMG I just found out about this. None of this makes sense, I am now obsessed with researching our falsified history

[@elliemay7300]

@@marieellender1389 me too. They went from enslaving the Irish and black people, to trafficking and enslaving children? There were millions used in orphan trains but they tell us a cpl hundred thousand? What was the civil war ALSO about??? So many questions now.

[@MrJm323]

"Also it is hard to believe that every one of those kids were abandoned [the 'foundlings'] or given away [given up to authorities voluntarily]." While I agree with you that more should should be said of their originating circumstances, ...OF COURSE, many of them were TAKEN from parents who were deemed unfit to care for their own children. (By the way, if the child was just running around in the street, committing shoplifting, engaging in behavior at the behest of street gangs, etc. -- in other words, a "street urchin"; that child would be taken in by the authorities; and if the parents objected, the judge would rule that those parents were too neglectful of that child, and legally authorize the loss of custody.) Well, you know, we do that TODAY; don't we? We have local CPS (Child Protective Services at the county and state level) today. Often courts will rule that the children be taken from neglectful or abusive parents, and typically those children wind up in foster care (domestic situations where the adults receive state money in return to agreeing to raise those children). The only difference back in the day, was that these kids weren't sent to ostensibly nice, middle class foster homes. There were so many of them (and there weren't enough nice middle class homes that wanted them), that they shipped them out, en masse, to rural areas ("get them out of the city and off our streets! Relieve the pressure on our orphanages and foundling hospitals!") and gave them to almost-as-poor farmers as farmhands.

[@Bobcatspiritdude]

Unfortunately, this isn't the only way the children were used! God bless their poor souls 🙏🙏🙏

[@bigfriz1229]

sadly so, puts in perspective why there are so many of these weirdo's in society these days.

[@moonburn8156]

White supremacy has always eaten its own.

[@maryward613]

My Grandmother was an Orphan Train child that got a home in Indiana. She was one of the lucky ones, being loved and well cared for.

[@EriPages]

ask her about The Great Reset that took place before her time

[@maryward613]

@@EriPages wish I could, she passed away in the 80's. What is it by the way?

[@EriPages]

@@maryward613 history is a lie. The timeline has been distorted. The orphans were worldwide. The world is run by lucirferian freemasons who've distorted history and fictiously added centuries to the timeline to obscure their distortion. The reason they've done what they've done is to hide all evidence of The Millennial Reign of The Christ already having happened. We currently live in The Short Season mentioned in Revelations chapter 20.

[@barbibutton9619]

Why or How was she orphaned. That's what we need to know. TY

[@barbibutton9619]

@@EriPages agree

[@treasure2behold282]

Children today have no idea what these children had to endure.

[@katepausig8562]

And children of the past would have no clue what children of today go through.

[@thabuneni26nxaa]

Lol, you didn't have a clue what they went through either when you were a child.

[@treasure2behold282]

@@thabuneni26nxaa do you ?

[@thabuneni26nxaa]

@@treasure2behold282 Nope. That's why I don't go around making statements like 'children today have no idea...'.

[@treasure2behold282]

@@thabuneni26nxaa good 4 you 🙄

[@timishere1925]

This is hell on earth. What we did and continue to do to other people is almost impossible to comprehend. Yeah, this is hell right here on this realm.

[@wesleyalan9179]

Correct, sir...absolutely 🎯

[@patrickoleary4261]

Why in the hell were there so many orphans? What the actual f was going on?

[@StripedAssedApe]

Hey kids, never mind that the train is crewed by identical clones of Tom Hanks, we're going to the North Pole to see Santa Claus!!

[@bobdangdole883]

XD Some of the best comments go left unnoticed.

[@5150applesauce]

@@bobdangdole883 I agree!

[@meggtokyodelicious]

Yes, majority are cloones. It's called replicantes, cuz they are babies. Some are Nazi children aka the blue bloodlines, you find them in south America. Every reset, little ones gets replaced to start from blank. We are dumbed down.

[@louisejeffries7155]

TH is one scary being

[@imasmurfy1]

What were the main reasons so many children ended up without parents? Maybe the infant incubators at the World's Fair hold some clues? 👀🔎

[@pagethreemodel]

Can you elaborate on this?

[@leroyfann5700]

@@pagethreemodel I think he means that the infants were a good portion of these orphans, though I would doubt that, there weren't that many incubators, maybe some were but not to many I guess.

[@GeneralAlex4]

Coney Island had them too. I agree with you.

[@dawnaalsabrook3236]

I don't believe this is so.. For instance my grandmother was ill. She and my grandfather put there children in an orphanage, paid a stipend so they could get them back. My grandmother had another child after the children were in the orphanage they had no idea about. She died less than 2 years after they went in. My grandfather quit paying the stipend and he lost custody of his kids. All of these children were NOT orphans but they were all abandoned in one form or another.

[@lesleyallinson8738]

They seemed to use them as slaves

[@Rosethatwantstomove]

After watching this video & reading the comments I feel very fortunate to be adopted in 1965. My life hasn't been easy either. But riding on train when you mere child that would be horrible

[@louisejeffries7155]

Weird how a train is the last resort yet this was happening globally Nothing like a reset now is there!!!!! Especially with children who have no past Their history started on the train It’s Shocking and here we go again

[@silassecoolish8197]

Yeah,here we go again

[@seanmehmood790]

Sounds like these kids were slaves

[@yveslaflute9228]

They were, at the end of mini ice age, a good owner was a blessing.

[@hopeking3588]

I was in foster care.moved 8 times as a child and I can only remember 2 homes that I felt the love.the rest of them I was abused or ignored. The good home move out of state and my daddy refuse to sign the papers for me to be adopted cause he was afraid he would never see us again.thats why they need open adoption where the parents can adopt you but you get to see your real parents once and awhile so you dont forget where you came from but you may have a better life with the adopted parents

[@leiaarteaga6659]

I am sorry for your experiences and I wish everyone involved was in it for the right reasons and wanted to take care of and love kids. As for the option to continue to see the bio parents...we have an open adoption agreement with my daughter's first family. We adopted her out of foster care and we have several visits a year with the family and are open to the possibility of more as she is older and if she is willing. It is possible, unfortunately, many times the bio parents are not willing to enter into that type of agreement, because that means signing the papers to relinquish their rights and they feel like that looks bad on them. Many times they would rather the state take the kids rather than admit they are not in a place to be adequate parents (normally due to drugs). I have also heard of open adoption agreements being made and then the bio families change numbers and addresses and are not able to be found... There are also times when the bio families cannot be in the child's life for safety reasons. Foster care is and will always be an imperfect system because people are inherently imperfect, but the focus should always be on the safety and well being of the child, not just physically, but emotionally as well. I am sorry you had to move so often, I am sorry it hurt you, but I am glad that I will be able to offer the best of both worlds to my daughter.

[@carolweaver3269]

I have a daughter in law who was in Foster Care and she claimed in one home they let her know " We would not have taken you if not for the money" So she did not feel any love.

[@mclum77]

By law, theres to be a 1× a year visit by the family.

[@theautodidacticman_]

Children from the Tartarian Empire

[@rmorris1904]

Yes! Who are the elite and how did they kill the adults??

[@LeafInTheWind88]

Why are they white?

[@theautodidacticman_]

@@LeafInTheWind88 because the Tartarian empire was Caucasian

[@UntappedShesources]

My great grandmother was sent from the NY Foundling hospital to Clifton Arizona she was one of 10 or so children involved in a Supreme Court case “The great Arizona orphan abduction” very crazy and disturbing story. However she did end up having a loving family and privileged life.

[@qua7771]

I remember watching "Little Rascals", and the kids were orphans. I was always curious about that.

[@markgonza8477]

Clones were sold at the world fair 1890 1915

[@jkane764]

Wondered about this - could explain why so many people look alike nowadays

[@tmmt6549]

this goes hand in hand with the early worlds fairs having massive amounts of baby incubators filled with babys ?????

[@lindahaynes3522]

It makes you appreciate your own imperfect but loving parents.

[@warrenjackson7459]

Poor little buggers were cloned underground and then bought to the surface to find a family

[@jkane764]

Wondered about this. It could explain why there were 30,.000 orphaned children ...

[@brandyb2931]

I saw a pbs video before this, a man spoke about hos life, he and his brother were adopted by a farmer, eho came to town one day and picked them up on a whim. He took them home to live with him and his wife and 2 daughters. He said they gave him a very good home. He said that even though he found his father later in life, he always considered his adopted parents his mother and father. So not everyone was treated poorly or a just a little bit less.

[@joshglover2370]

God, think of how many of these poor children wound up in the hands of child molesters and other types of sickos... 😢

[@gardenjoy5223]

They were at such people's 'mercy' anyway on the streets. Many got a train ticket out of that. It hurts to think of all those, for whom it didn't work out. But my heart warms to think of all those, for whom it did work out. Some went from one terrible situation to the next. Many went from a terrible situation to a better situation, some went from a terrible situation to a good situation.

[@walkinaxyl]

One has to question our southern border. What the hell is going on there and where are the tens of thousands of children going!!

[@gial8862]

@@walkinaxyl exactly. The people given the task of handling these children are unchecked at best, and verifiably evil and criminal at worst. Alex Jones showed up with cameras and caught the half hazard shipment of large groups of children dangerously squished into vehicles without seatbelts and clearly not being tracked. No organized and vetted group would behave this way. This is purposely being done to hurt people and put uneducated voters in districts they want to flip. We are witnessing tyranny and history repeating. It was almost exactly 100 years since the last spanish flu. How far after the spanish flu did we have a “great reset”? err, I mean, “great depression”? History is recycling itself. How pong after the great depression was nazism? Ww2? etc. It just keeps happening again and again.

[@valor101arise]

Wasnt as prevalent back then. We're a pornified society and have a billion dollar porn industry out of CA which has made the perverts from a young age today. Not so back then

[@Francois_Dupont]

@@valor101arise yes it was. remember the story of Giles de Raie? we tortured and raped hundreds of children meanwhile nobody questioned anything because he was like royalty. just like Jimmy Saville with the BBC. do your own research.

[@stacydaisy9273]

I will never buy the story. There was all these kids on the street. No. I think something happened to the parents. Maybe part of the re set

[@sissyrayself7508]

I hate this author. I read her book and she basically paints anyone who can live off the land, who owns guns can hunt and fish and survive without the Gooberment as being a vile and evil and untrustworthy person. She's totally biased and judgemental. I literally found myself repulsed by her judge attitude towards the type of person my own family is. We are not what she depicted in the book.. not even close to it. She disgusts me with her pious judgemental attitude.

[@michaeltaylors2456]

Felicity Ray Self .. her story is silly from the outset..

[@flatearthancap362]

Sounds horrible. It reminds me the book called The Iron Republic (written around 1902) some people seem to like without noticing the tyrannical stalinist nature of this state. "Stalin" is "man of steel" in russian. He used this pseudonym from 1912. I wonder if he or his handlers read or even arranged the entire writing of "The Iron Republic"...

[@axellajohannesson447]

Seriously? You're referring to a single character, not "anyone who can live off the land".

[@summerseasongs]

You can't be serious. There was one family mentioned in the book who lived off the land, ONE!!!!!!!! She DOES NOT put down the whole society of people who live off the land. These kids were used as labour by both city and country people, the rich and the poor. Stop taking the depiction of one character in a book of many, to make ridiculous generalizations about the author.

[@summerseasongs]

@@axellajohannesson447 I know right and it's not like they were the only people who treated the main character badly.

[@mclum77]

Looks like they're trying to do it again. 😔

[@eileengnehm1537]

My grandmother was an orphan and was raised in Colorado. I often wonder if she was stolen or bought because she never talked about her family once pregnant and married.

[@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988]

Proof that the Mood Flood and Tartarian Empire really existed

[@carolweaver3269]

My grandmother was born in 1900. She and her brothers and sisters were placed on the trains but they were put in an orphanage in the 'Hasting On The Hudson'. She said she went to the Graham school that it was a Baptist home with 'Cottage mothers.' She came originally from Upstate NY. Her dad could not afford to take care of the children when their mom died while diapering the youngest child. She died young from a bd heart. Grandma said one cottage mother was so mean to her ( No children laws then) and she cut off her blonde naturally curly hair saying " You have too much pride" and put her up in the cistern area. She would get hungry and climbed down ad a tree and got inside and got something to eat. Grandma knew her bible backward and forwards and was a very upright kind of woman. She went to cooking school as she wanted to be a nurse but while in line and getting to the front of the line they did not need anymore for the nursing so she needed to take the cooking classes they offered. Grandma was a fantastic cook and a wonderful baker! She caned her own Veg, and Fruit etc etc. She made Watermelon Rind pickles. After she was older her brother and sister were searching for all and they found the Dad and the sisters snd brothers except for one named Arther and never found where he was? Grandma never really forgave her dad though. Grandma was put into foster care ( some got adopted out and one of her sisters got to live with the grandmother.) But when the wife went away the man chased her around the table and she was very afraid. (Not sure if the woman wanted to believe it or not, but probably not??) So she went back to the orphanage. But grandma married someone from the country in Upstate NY and settled on a whole road named after her husband's family from Germany. Her dad did come at times to visit and brought antique furniture. Once he brought my mom a piano so she could take lessons, I felt so bad for my grandmother and loved her so very much. She and grandpa were so good to us. She always wanted to have had her mother though. She often spoke of that. The sisters and brothers never were super close after meeting though. They just did not totally understand each other. Her one sister though did leave to my mom and I, the history of our ancestry and we were able to get int the Daughters Of The American Revolution in which I am a Registrar. I would love to know where this orphanage was in NYC. But maybe it was not Baptist as grandma thought? She knew it was Christian. It was a scary and upsetting time for many families and especially children. I always wished I was rich and could have had an orphanage and could make sure each child was tucked in and loved and allowed to know someone did care about them. It is certain they were disciplined and may be taken care of but do not think they got the tender love and care needed?

[@mclum77]

My aunt belonged to the daughters of the revolution! Haven't heard that label for a very long time! She was born in 1895. Lovely woman, passed at 93💗🙏

[@mclum77]

I enjoyed your post 💗

[@miriammcgiffin7464]

Thank you for sharing.

[@tammyeoneal1754]

Thank you. I’m honored that you shared this story with us.

[@xaven199]

History is his story, the winners

[@dergutehut3961]

Uhm..yes...if historians (like some youtubers) wouldn't be critical about their sources (which is the whole point of being a professional historian). If you believe history is ONLY written by the winners...you clearly haven't spent much time with history.

[@darksdmoon9073]

My understanding is that this situation was indeed global..Not just an American phenomenon.

[@GlitterbillySav]

my great grandma, who just passed at 96, stated that a couple of them from our family ended up on the train because there was disease and a lot of parents died and left the kids without care. this is fascinating to find out where my own family tree took root

[@tjmmcd1]

Why are there no historical references to such a widespread disease, and what kind of disease only affects adults but not children?

[@andrewedelman3968]

@@tjmmcd1 Corona?

[@carolweaver3269]

I agree Savanah and my grandmother and her brothers and sisters were victims of this too. The mom died early and the dad could not afford to take care of the children. My husbands dad was not placed into an orphanage but he lost his dad young and the mom could not keep him but kept his sister. They placed him on a farm. He worked on that farm all those years and was about 12 yrs old when the husband and wife ( who were not able before to have children, the owners of the farm did get pregnant and had a son.) But they NEVER made him work the farm, So once my husband's dad grew up, he left the home. *No children laws then*

[@GlitterbillySav]

Tom McDonough not sure. My great grandma said adults were dying right and left and leaving children behind. The time that it occurred I want to say it could possibly be a reference to plague but I’m sure I’m not correct. I would have to do some digging

[@GlitterbillySav]

Carol Weaver that’s interesting. Also tragic for all those kids. But I am glad for the ones that were able to be placed with good families and go on to live happy lives

[@SuperiorAmericanGuy]

When I see foster children go to homelessness and or to prison after foster care I blame the system for teaching kids to become criminals. What’s in the foster care system is more dangerous than anyone realize. I seen what foster care does to kids and I don’t want to bury anymore poor people that died from starvation.

[@happypeasanthomestead344]

Child trafficking 😭

[@aarongerwig2050]

Definitely after the last reset, post Carranteen event in 1859. Timeline fits just about perfect. Then came world expositions, then destroy 95% of the previous world wide buildings. Save a few as post offices, insane asylums, city/town buildings, ect.

[@BellicoseNation]

When you look at the comments below you understand why social programs are such failures, their observers look for utopian outcomes rather than better outcomes. Does anyone imagine these kids would have been better on the street or in a govt care centers? My father grew up doing this exact labor and so did every other farm kid. There is always this need to find evil based on exceptional cases. You will notice the biggest critics have never fixed one problem or built one successful program.

[@quasimobius]

My mother said her and all her siblings elped with chores on the farme, whether it was feeding or plucking a chicken, milking cows or picking cotton and weeding a vegetable garden. It was life in the country, pure and simple. A little work never killed anyone and the boys grew up to start and run their own businesses; feed stores, jewelry stores, convenience stores and one became a contractor. None became drunken, shiftless layabouts like so many of today's whiney, privileged brats .

[@godislove2656]

At least these kids got a trade and know how to feed their self. They were dying from starvation and being run over and putting the in an institution they would be wards of the state and learned nothing , the would have been booted out at 21 with no where to go or how to survive

[@CapedCrusader77]

Just because you have a few happy endings doesn't mean everyone did or that you can silence their stories. My gram's adventure in an orphanage wasn't awesome. Guess she should be happy to have emotional problems that affected her children and her trauma that caused cycles of abuse bc of detachment and aparthy? Not everyone lived happily ever after. Not everyone was happy to be broken up and shipped away.

[@SixMiracles-uj1zp]

@@CapedCrusader77 - Agree. And I believe many of those children were stolen like the children in Haiti. Laura Silsby tried to take many out of Haiti saying the parents were dead, but the parents were looking for their children! Silsby was on her way to jail, but the Clintons stepped in. As I understand it, Silsby got married and works for Amber Alert.☹️

[@kevinbbadd]

Hello human trafficker

[@lindadowns5121]

Many people have no idea of their real family background. What a loss! Today Children's Protective Services are doing the same, in higher numbers, with nearly the same results. Is this really better for the children? I think not nearly as much as we are led to believe.

[@playfultopnotch]

Cps is the whole opposite of what it claims to be .

[@mjohnson1741]

A lot of missing children go unnoticed when they enter the system and disappear and used in sick pedophile rings look further into Epstein and pizza gate.

[@mclum77]

They do not have the same end as these children 😭

[@dawnleary869]

I grew up in the mid 50s, & where we (9 brothers & sisters) grew up in a home where there was much love & Dad provided for us the best he could, because he lost his hand in a saw milling accident! Mum seem like she was pregnant forever but she had time & love for each of us, dad loved each of us equally but ruled us with an iron hand if you like. Sure we was hungry many times, although we always had food, but mostly not a lot of it. We had warm beds even if there was 3 in a single bed. Our dad had a nervous breakdown after losing his hand, & became an alcoholic at an early age. The eldest 3 kids left school at 12 & had to go & work, but lived at home to help out with money & chores. So yes we did it hard, & when we were disciplined we got the leather belt, jug cord or a ruddy great stick. But years later once we were grown, as in my late 50s, i found out my dad as a child (came from a family of 13 kids) at 5 yrs old lived on the streets, as did a lot of his siblings, he had ulcerated legs etc & he would find food for his sisters & so on, until the Catholic Nuns took him in at the age of 9. He went to work in a sawmill at the age of 10. Not once did any of us kids know, about this for near 60 years & after dad had died. He never once said a word about it to any of us, including our mum, his wife. We found out because a family member did a family tree. Once i knew, it explained everything why our dad was the way he was. He was a kind man & would give anyone anything to help them, & yes he took a few kids in that were doing it hard. All my siblings grew up to become good human beings, never in trouble with the police & raised good decent families of their own. So the catch to the story is, we, us now think we are doing it hard but not even close, to what our parents or their parents did growing up. There is always someone worse off hey? 😢

[@GeneralAlex4]

The less kids you have the easier it is to run a family. I couldn't do what your dad did with 9 kids.

[@dawnleary869]

@@GeneralAlex4 a lot of people have said that, but i think its the other way, i will explain. If you have a bigger family especially if they are a mixed gender, there are always hand me down clothes, shoe's & so on, if you have a kg of steak, mince etc, & vegies you can make enough food to feed a family of 7 or better for 2 or 3 meals each. When you turn on a light (electricity bills) that one light is enough to shine in the room for 1 person or 20+ people costing the same amount, you run a bath that is enough water to bath 4 or 5 kids etc, or in (our case) mum, dad, & 5 kids in a portable sml tub lol.2 double beds will bed 8 kids & so on. A 3 br house, will house at least a family of 11+ and so on! But i'm talking way back when! Now days i would say in a pinch maybe you could make some of this work, but i don't think the lot, back in my days big families like ours we were on the free list for school books etc, plus mum didn't have to pay for doctors or nurses, we had a bush nurse in the clinic every week, & a doctor would come once a fortnight! Most people back in those days would give us free school uniforms their kids had grown out of or even clothes, nothing like today. I have 3 inlaws who would throw out all these things before giving them to someone else, & that truly saddens me. I was a single mother at the age of 37, & was stalked by my ex for 13 yrs, i held 3 casual jobs down to feed house & cloth myself & my son. Not once did any one of these inlaws give me hand me downs for my son, they threw them to the tip. I paid more rent for my son & i, in a 2 br unit, then my friend did for a beautiful 4 bedroom house, for herself & 3 kids (public housing same as me) But i guess in these days it balances it out over all. The nicest thing is all of us as kids were happy, we got to run free through the bush, build cubby tree houses, & got excited to go to bed so we could wake up the next day & finish building it & playing house with each other. As they say, life was hard but grand. I get your point though🙂

[@theseeker1237]

This type of life style still exists today. Travel the world and see for yourself. Millions of children go missing every year never to be found, even in the USA. So what's really going on?

[@mclum77]

Tunnels 😭🤮

[@jesuslovesyouforalleternit8064]

I'm surprised the comments are still on...

[@happy2watchu]

These children were dying on the streets of New York. Many had the the first good meals on these farms. Were they slave labor? If you were born to a farm family, you worked as soon as you could stand up. Even in the 1960s, farm kids worked on the family farm and after they finished on the family farm, they would go and work on a neighbor’s farm to earn money for their school clothes. They did the same jobs that any child who was born to that farmer would do. Life was hard for everyone.

[@happy2watchu]

Calpurnia L is that why the religion of the receiving families were not verified and that many of the children were placed with Catholic families?

[@happy2watchu]

Calpurnia L The children were all religions during the orphan train period. At points in time there were epidemics that cause children of every religion to be orphaned. Also, the trains did not go just to the Midwest. They went to the south as well. I watched interview of woman whose father was on an orphan train who went to Louisiana and was raised by French Catholics. The train stopped in this Catholic town and 15 or 16 children were put with families. Any family who could take in a child or two was encouraged by the parish priest. Parishioners actually put in requests for “a boy” or “a girl.” This happened all over French Catholic towns. Other parts of the country, children were brought to German Catholic towns. So not just Protestants took these children in. The fact that there were people who were willing to take in a raise children not there own at times when food was often scarce showed great generosity. The woman whose father was on an orphan train said she family had 8 other children. His adopted mother told him that she felt they had room for one more. He had a wonderful childhood with many loving siblings who treated him like one of their own. There was not just one orphan train. There were many. Some were originated by Catholic orphanages that were overflowing. Catholic orphanages took in children of all religions. And baptized the children Catholic. I take issue to the idea that all these children were victims of this effort to get them out of New York. The city was a horrible place for children even if their parents were well off. Disease was rampant. If a child was an orphan, the best possible opportunity would be a farm with fresh air, plenty of fresh food and open space to run. Cities with coal or oil for heating has bad air and scarce food that was often not fresh

[@happy2watchu]

Calpurnia L Yes there was a huge anti Catholic sentiment but the fact that there were Catholic orphanages sending the children to the Midwest says something about the intentions. Also the children weren’t all Irish Catholics, either. Many were abandoned or orphaned due to epidemics. There were philanthropic groups who funded these trains from money of wealthy donors. It was felt that since there weren’t enough families in the city to take the children, it would be better to send them west into the country to farms. Were all the families wonderful, no! Were they all horrible as the documentary implied, no. Many, many of these children found lasting families, sometimes with childless couples who got their wish to finally have a child of there own. The families fed, clothed, sheltered, and educated these children. This was far better than what would have happened to them in the city. There are stories of these children inheriting the family farm. The trains continued until the beginning of foster care system. I think the orphan train program produced better results. People took in children because they wanted them. Not because someone was paying them to take the child. By the way, there is a huge anti Catholic sentiment today, and it is not coming from Protestants. They are the victims of that same hatred.

[@happy2watchu]

Yes I got that from video. Fact is there were children going to all kinds of homes including Catholic. I get that they did not go out and find Catholic homes. They tried to find homes period. 200,000 children were transported on those trains. The fact that they found homes at all and did not just dump them on the streets showed that someone did care. It was not to just get rid of them. And they weren’t forced into Protestantism. They joined the family religion. Protestants came forward to care for the children. The Protestant children that wound up in Catholic orphanages ended up being baptized Catholic. The guy who wound up in the French Catholic home came from no religion. And if there was hatred toward this group, Protestants certainly wouldn’t want to take them in. I think there are two issues here. Hatred of the poor Irish Catholic didn’t have much to do with philanthropic groups trying to find homes for abandoned or orphaned children. If your looking for victims, every group was a victim at some point and every group was a victimizer. A thorough study of history may surprise most people.

[@happy2watchu]

Calpurnia L when I was 13, (I am in my 60s now) I met an elderly woman who was on one of those trains with her older sister. Then later I came across a Scholastic book about the orphan trains. Finally, when an opportunity came up, I went to listen to a speaker. The woman who spoke, was the granddaughter of an orphan train woman. I always thought that it was remarkable that so many children could be placed in so many homes and today, people don’t want children at all. They would rather have a dog. There are so many children in bad and unsafe homes and not enough foster homes available to get these children out of abusive situations. Can you image if there were 200,000 children.

[@CoachKathiTheFitSpirit]

Wow. There's so much I don't know. Thank you for teaching me.

[@meredithgreenslade1965]

England sent thousands of children across the world. Going to South Africa, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Those poor children were often sent to farms to work. They may have died in England from hunger and disease or forced to work in the colonies. Sad

[@flatearthancap362]

"It was an imperfect system". That implies that there could be the perfect one :D

[@firstnamelastname-ve9gj]

This is what’s going on now. Many orphans because all their parents dead from the kill shot

[@mclum77]

😭🙏

[@loisraymcinnis6006]

Thank you.

[@ParzivalPheonix]

Where are all the graves from pre-1800 ?

[@pawestaniecki6343]

if you want to defeat your enemy, raise his children...

[@jh9391]

This is bits of truth swimming in the usual brainwash lies😞

[@karattkensair9891]

My great grandmother in Liverpool did the same thing in the 30s or 40s I was always told. Never met him but I do remember her. She wasn't a farm owner by any means just a loving generous lady.

[@sircles-net]

great show

[@talesofthechrysalis]

Sooo you’re saying that there was, suddenly, 100s of thousands of children without parents at the same time there were 100s of thousands of adults somewhere else looking for children 🤔

[@mjll6386]

Orphan Trai. Is one of my favorite all time books. It is a shame that we all know so little about the trains and the results.

[@sanais_life]

Crazy the New York foundling is still operating today. When I was in foster care that’s where I had visits with family.

[@hankhonkler4732]

First off. If the idea started as stated, with Brace saying. Hey,..."labor shortage on the farm - poor children in the cities with 1 or no parents" ...let's solve two problems here....they would never have to tell the kids their past wasn't their past and to forget who they were, and the organizers wouldn't lie and tell every train load of kids that they were the only group of kids,.. that's gaslighting and it wouldn't be necessary if the story was honest

[@anthonyfriel6229]

A crime against humanity

[@amandakelley1665]

Many of these kids were taken in by families only for cheap labor. They needed boys to work fields or girls to help with large families. There were some who were taken in and treated right but not as many as became work hands.

[@anntunaley9974]

I’m so thankful that my grandmother and her 6 siblings weren’t sent on these trains. During this time period, their mother died here in NY when her last baby was born. They were put in an orphanage. Their father visited them each weekend. I would have hated to have had them separated and never see each other again. Because the people who took in these train riders always changed their names, some many times. Soon, they had forgotten their original names so they’d never be able to locate their siblings years later, even if they had the opportunity. Approx. 67% of the train riders had one parent, so they were not really orphans. They were considered half orphans. Also, many parents came home to find their children missing because they happened to be on the streets playing and were rounded up with the other kids to be put on these trains. They weren’t careful about who they took. Very few siblings were ever adopted together because most people couldn’t afford the kids they already had, let alone take on more. Babies were chosen first, then older boys for farm work, older girls were next chosen to take care of people’s kids and clean their houses. And young girls and boys were last.

[@lanceskopik2928]

So 30,000 kids on the streets . Let’s just say hypothetically that it takes two people to make one kid . It’s a stretch. So anywere up to 60,000 parents went missing and left the kids, makes sense. No answers needed here .

[@ul3142]

So she wrote a book and she spins the motives and the good that was done because, for some, the outcome was less than perfect! Those were hard times. None of us today truly understand just how hard. Even if you weren't living with foster parents, life for most children (and adults) was hard. Yet, they overwhelmingly grew up to be productive members of society and to love their families and neighbors. Today everyone is a victim ready to blame others for what is not perfect in their lives.

[@StripedAssedApe]

There were so many orphans because they were put out of work by machines and automation? Ok lol

[@GeneralAlex4]

That lady is a fuck job! Bullshit book!

[@joejosa8985]

"The trains went to the midewest." "Then the trains went to the midwest." "Then farmers, or whoever came would often, unlike a slave auction, have them run in place check their teeth," What the hell happened back then?

[@angelsspace76]

When she said the children were told their parents are not their parents and to completely forget their pasts that they're the chosen ones..i cringed to think of how soom the next one is..

[@michellejohnson9177]

Here from the great reset mud flood theory. Those poor children who lost their families and given no choice… such a hard life…

[@neeseeb3476]

My GG Grandmother I was told on the Mo Train. Born in 1844 and found with a family in 1860 Knob Noster Mo

[@neeseeb3476]

I just need to verify

[@hemaleite6331]

Thanks for sharing. Sad Kids Slavery . Wow this happens every where but Right here In America. It broke my heart

[@silvereagle1960]

The 90 year old lady said that the new parents weren't her people, interesting, Tarterians!

[@peculiargirl3223]

My grandpa was adopted from a train in MO to pick fruit

[@paulettezobrist6560]

Heartbreaking

[@christinefiori8714]

Same in Australia and other colonies of England. In Australia you could pay to see the new babies all in a row their cribs...hundreds of them.

[@nancyhoward7005]

Blessings

[@zenatman]

If everything is upside down and backwards... You gotta realize the word 'slave' came from Slavic all these children are the real slaves that came over on ships. The out of Africa and slave ships bring full grown men to be slaves in america is a fallacy, it happened opposite of what we are told. There were already native red/brown skin people with nappy hair on this land. The number of 'aftricans' that came here as slaves is preposterous and extremely inflated. Most likely the trade of people went in the opposite direction

[@louisejeffries7155]

Perhaps these children where of the breeding programs They had no past So sad

[@GeneralAlex4]

You probably right, to be sold as slaves or helping hands.

[@danarzechula3769]

This makes me so sad it's like they were stray dogs

[@jeannemarlene]

I want to cry how sad this is too