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

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

Constant Wonder

An Onion in My Pocket (originally aired December 11, 2020)

Episode: An Onion in My Pocket (originally aired December 11, 2020)

  • Aug 30, 2021 6:00 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"