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#368 Henry Bergh's Fight for Animal Rights in Gilded Age New York
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
Interview with Prof. Ernest Freeberg, author of “A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement” Today’s show is all about animals in 19th-century New York City. Of course, animals were an incredibly common sight on the streets, market halls, and factories during the Gilded Age, and…
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