One Gilded Age Eccentric's Fight for the Rights of Animals

One Gilded Age Eccentric's Fight for the Rights of Animals

Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 782 , Segment 2

An Onion in My Pocket

Episode: An Onion in My Pocket

  • Dec 11, 2020 7:00 pm
  • 25:57 mins

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. Guest: Ernest Freeberg, Professor of Humanities and Head of the History Department at the University of Tennessee, and author of "A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement"