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

One Gilded Age Eccentric's Fight for the Rights of AnimalsConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 904, Segment 2

Mar 9, 2021 • 4m

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; author of "A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement"

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