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hits the reader where they live, grabs them by the gut and takes them back in time to a place where laws, moral decency, and childrens rights were relegated to
the back seat and certainly no more than an outward show to the rest of the world. In her book, Linda Gordon, not only presents the theme of racism based
not only on ethnicity, but on religion as well. In the end, she not only has proven her point many times over, but has both managed to outrage and move
the reader to determine that this type of injustice should not ever happen again. So, what happened? It started out well enough. At the turn of the century, most
of the major cities and towns had grown faster than their ability to sustain its population. As a result, there were more and more children finding themselves orphaned. The Sisters
of Charity orphanage determined that something had to be done with the children as there was just no more room for them in the city. So, they contacted their Catholic
counterparts out West, in Arizona. There, the Catholic church found numerous families who were not only willing, but desperate, to adopt and have children. Problem solved, the nuns thought. So,
they packed up the children and set off on a very long trip out West. Consider that in 1904 the only mode of transportation would have been by train,
so the trip would have had to have been very arduous and draining on all the participants. So, it can be assumed that when the nuns stepped off the train
in the small mining town in Arizona that they were relieved. However, they would not even have time to get their bags unpacked before the trouble would begin. In