Event Title
Social Reform and Gender: Henry Bergh, "Manliness", and the Early Animal Rights Movement in America
Faculty Mentor
Dr. Ernest Freeberg
Department (e.g. History, Chemistry, Finance, etc.)
History
College (e.g. College of Engineering, College of Arts & Sciences, Haslam College of Business, etc.)
College of Arts & Sciences
Year
2018
Abstract
In 1867, New York resident and philanthropist Henry Bergh founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (better known now the ASPCA). He was responsible for creating the first animal cruelty society of its kind in the United States, only a few years after the United States had abolished slavery and decades before women would be given the right to vote. While Bergh's work would start a revolution into the way Americans treated animals legally, he did not do so without controversy.
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Social Reform and Gender: Henry Bergh, "Manliness", and the Early Animal Rights Movement in America
In 1867, New York resident and philanthropist Henry Bergh founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (better known now the ASPCA). He was responsible for creating the first animal cruelty society of its kind in the United States, only a few years after the United States had abolished slavery and decades before women would be given the right to vote. While Bergh's work would start a revolution into the way Americans treated animals legally, he did not do so without controversy.