One Gilded Age Eccentric's Fight for the Rights of AnimalsConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 782, Segment 2
Dec 11, 2020 • 26m
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"