Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals - Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy

Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik, Bill Wasik

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A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid, Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and dogs were pitted against each other for entertainment and gambling. But in 1866, a group of activists began a dramatic campaign to change the nations laws and norms, and by the centurys end, most Americans had adopted a very different way of thinking and feeling about the animals in their midst., In Our Kindred Creatures, Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine , and veterinarian Monica Murphy offer a fascinating history of this crusade and the battles it sparked in American life. On the side of reform were such leaders as George Angell, the inspirational head of Ma