A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement

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A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement

Title remainder

Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement

Statement of responsibility

Ernest Freeberg

Creator

• Freeberg, Ernest

Subject

• Animal rights activists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Animal welfare -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Barnum, P. T., (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
• Bergh, Henry, 1811-1888
• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- History
• Earle, Caroline
• Human-animal relationships
• Society
• Burns, Kit

Language

eng

Summary

Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs rooting through garbage in the streets, geese and chickens harried by the packs of stray dogs that roamed the 19th century city. For all of American history, animals had been a ubiquitous and seemingly inevitable part of urban life, essential to sustaining a dense human population. As that population became ever-denser, though, city dwellers were forced to consider new ways to share space with their fellow creatures - and began to fit urban animals into one of two categories: the pets they loved or the pests they exterminated. Into the fracas of the urban landscape stepped Henry Bergh, who launched a then-shocking campaign to bring rights to animals. Bergh's movement was considered wildly radical for suggesting that animals might feel pain, that they might have rights

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 179.3'092
• 179.3'092
• 179.3092

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction