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How Welfare Worked in the Early United States - Five Microhistories (Paperback)
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How Welfare Worked in the Early United States - Five Microhistories (Paperback)
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What was American welfare like in George Washington's day? It was
expensive, extensive, and run by local governments. Known as "poor
relief," it included what we would now call welfare and social
work. Unlike other aspects of government, poor relief remained
consistent in structure between the establishment of the British
colonies in the 1600s and the New Deal of the 1930s. In this book,
Gabriel J. Loiacono follows the lives of five people in Rhode
Island between the Revolutionary War and 1850: a long-serving
overseer of the poor, a Continental Army veteran who was repeatedly
banished from town, a nurse who was paid by the government to care
for the poor, an unwed mother who cared for the elderly, and a
paralyzed young man who attempted to become a Christian missionary
from inside of a poorhouse. Of Native, African, and English
descent, these five Rhode Islanders utilized poor relief in various
ways. Tracing their involvement with these programs, Loiacono
explains the importance of welfare through the first few
generations of United States history. In Washington's day, poor
relief was both generous and controlling. Two centuries ago,
Americans paid for-and many relied on-an astonishing governmental
system that provided food, housing, and medical care to those in
need. This poor relief system also shaped American households and
dictated where Americans could live and work. Recent generations
have assumed that welfare is a new development in the United
States. This book shows how old welfare is in the United States of
America through five little-known, but compelling, life stories.
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