One Gilded Age Eccentric's Fight for the Rights of AnimalsConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 743, Segment 1
Nov 13, 2020 • 39m
One Gilded Age Eccentric's Fight for the Rights of Animals
Guest: Ernest Freeberg, Professor of humanities and head of the history department at the University of Tennessee, author of "A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement"
Henry Bergh was a sort of super-hero—running through the streets, interrupting traffic, making arrests, all to save a mistreated horse or dog. This Gilded Age man started the Animal Rights movement.