The Other Animals – A Traitor to his Species – Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
The roots of the animal rights movement in the US date back to the 1870’s and the so-called “Gilded Age” when a visionary named Henry Bergh founded the first ASPCA and battled everyone from teamsters to P. T. Barnum and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Ernest Freeberg, author of “A Traitor to his Species” joins us to explore this quixotic personality.