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A TRAITOR TO HIS SPECIES
Henry Blergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
The story of a remarkable man who gave voice to the voiceless and shaped our modern relationship with animals.
From the prize winning author who brought you such novels as The Education of Laura Bridgman (winner of the Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association) and Democracy's Prisoner (winner of the David Langum Award for Legal History and the Eli Oboler Award from the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Roundtable), comes a new work that explores one of the pioneers of the animal rights movement.
In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for animals that fueled a controversial anti-cruelty movement.
Ernest Freeberg, the award-winning historian, tells the story of Henry Bergh and his campaign for animal rights. Cheered on by thousands of men and women who joined his cause, Bergh fought with robber barons, Five Points gangs, and legendary impresario P.T. Barnum, as they pushed for new laws to protect trolley horses, livestock, stray dogs, and other animals.
Ernest Freeberg is a distinguished professor of humanities and head of the history department at the University of Tennessee. He has authored three award-winning books, including The Age of Edison, which was named best book of the year by the American Library Association. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for animals that fueled a controversial anti-cruelty movement.
Ernest Freeberg, the award-winning historian, tells the story of Henry Bergh and his campaign for animal rights. Cheered on by thousands of men and women who joined his cause, Bergh fought with robber barons, Five Points gangs, and legendary impresario P.T. Barnum, as they pushed for new laws to protect trolley horses, livestock, stray dogs, and other animals.
Ernest Freeberg is a distinguished professor of humanities and head of the history department at the University of Tennessee. He has authored three award-winning books, including The Age of Edison, which was named best book of the year by the American Library Association. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Published 2020-09-22 by Basic Books |