Humans, Animals, and U. S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History
Volume II: Animal and Human in American Thought (Part 2)

Edited by Dominik Ohrem

ISBN13: 9780367470029

Imprint: Routledge

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Published: 27/10/2025

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This volume addresses the broad topic of "thinking animality" in the long nineteenth century and the constitutive interplay between conceptualizations of the animal and the human that bolstered but also challenged the widespread idea of human uniqueness. The purpose of this volume is to trace the conceptual workings of animality within and across specific domains of social and scientific thought. The sources collected in this volume is intended to outline an intellectual history of animality in the long nineteenth century.
Volume 2: Animal and Human in American Thought (Part 2) General Introduction Volume 2 Introduction Part 1: The Contested Topography of the Human 1. Blackness and Humanity in a Nation of Slavery (1839-1861) 1.1 [Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Emily Grimké, and Sarah Moore Grimké], [The Treatment of Slaves], from American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839. 1.2 Frederick Douglass, extract from The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered: An Address Before the Literary Societies of Western Reserve College, at Commencement, July 12, 1854 (Rochester: Printed by Lee, Mann & Co., 1854), pp. 5-16, 34-6. 1.3 John H. Van Evrie, [The Physical Characteristics of the Negro], from Negroes and Negro “Slavery:” The First an Inferior Race: The Latter Its Normal Condition (New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1861), pp. 92-7, 105-22 2. Josiah Clark Nott, “Geographical Distribution of Animals and the Races of Men”, The New-Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal 9 (May 1843): 727-746. 3. John Fiske, “The Progress from Brute to Man”, The North American Review 117, no. 241 (October 1873): 251–82. 4. Hubert Howe Bancroft, “Savagism and Civilization”, fromThe Native Races of the Pacific States of North America. Vol. 2 (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1875), pp. 1-6, 9-13, 18-21, 36-7. 5. Antoinette L. B. Blackwell, “Sex and Evolution”, from The Sexes Throughout Nature (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1875), pp. 11-14, 16-46, 48-51, 54-59, 61-4, 79-83, 87-90, 96-99, 105-08, 111-24, 131-32, 135-37. 6. Debating “Woman’s Place in Nature”: Lester F. Ward vs. Grant Allen in The Forum (1888-1890) 6.1 Lester Frank Ward, “Our Better Halves”, The Forum 6 (November 1888): 266-75. 6.2 Grant Allen, “Woman’s Place in Nature”, The Forum 7 (May 1889): 258-63. 6.3 ––––, “Woman’s Intuition”, The Forum 9 (May 1890): 333-40. 6.4 Lester Frank Ward, “Genius and Woman’s Intuition”, The Forum 9 (June 1890): 401-408. 7. William G. Schell, [Does Scripture Deny the Humanity of the Negro?], from Is the Negro a Beast?: A Reply to Chas. Carroll’s Book Entitled “The Negro a Beast.” Proving That the Negro Is Human from Biblical, Scientific, and Historical Standpoints (Moundsville: Gospel Trumpet Pub. Co., 1901), pp. 11-14, 16-22, 26-42. 8. Nathaniel S. Shaler, [On the Tribal Spirit and the Categoric Motive], from The Neighbor: The Natural History of Human Contacts (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904), pp. 21-43, 46-47, 192-203. 9. Improving the “Human Harvest”: The Promises of American Eugenics (1907-1915) 9. 1 David Starr Jordan, The Human Harvest: A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit (Boston: Beacon Press, 1907), pp. 13-28-41-4. 9.2 William Isaac Thomas, “Eugenics: The Science of Breeding Men”, American Magazine 68, no. 2 (June 1909): 190–97. 9.3 Charles Benedict Davenport, “Eugenics and Euthenics”, from Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (New York: H. Holt, 1911), pp. 252-54, 260-63. 9. 4 Orator Fuller Cook, “Eugenics and Breeding”, Journal of Heredity 5, no. 1 (1914): 30–33. 10. Charlotte P. Gilman, “As to Humanness”, from The Man-Made World: Or, Our Androcentric Culture (New York: Charlton Co., 1911), pp. 9-25 Part 2: Humane Ethics and Animal Democracy 11. Voices of Animal Advocacy in the Early Republic (1787-1792) 11.1 [Anon.], “On Cruelty to Inferior Animals”, The New Haven Chronicle, June 12, 1787, 1. 11.2 [Anon.], “On Cruelty to Animals”, American Museum, or, Universal Magazine 11, no. 2 (February 1792): 54–56. 11.3 Herman Daggett, The Rights of Animals: An Oration, Delivered at the Commencement of Providence-College, September 7, 1791 (Sagg-Harbour: David Frothingham, 1792). 12. William A. Alcott, “The Moral Argument”, from Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men and by Experiences in All Ages (Boston: Marsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1838), pp. 266-73. 13. John Comly, [Learning Kindness to Animals], Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of John Comly, Late of Byberry, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: T. E. Chapman, 1853), pp. 5-7, 24-6, 46-8. 14. Henry Bergh, “The Cost of Cruelty”, The North American Review 133, no. 296 (July 1881): 75–81. 15. George T. Angell, “Lessons on Kindness to Animal”, from The Primary Teacher 5, no. 1-10 (September 1881-June 1882): 24-26, 64-65, 108-109, 145-146, 188-189, 226-228, 264-266, 307-308, 345-346, 382-383. 16. Henry Childs Merwin, “The Ethics of Horse-Keeping”, The Atlantic Monthly 67 (May 1891): 631–39. 17. Vivisection: Perspectives on a Controversial Practice (1884-1912) 17.1 Albert Leffingwell, “Vivisection”, Lippincott’s Magazine 34 (August 1884): 126–132. 17.2 Henry Pickering Bowditch, “The Advancement of Medicine by Research” Science 4, no. 82 (July 24, 1896): 85-8, 91-7, 99–101. 17.3 Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, “Is Vivisection a Peculiar Institution?”, Journal of Zoöphily 18, no. 10 (October 1909): 108–110. 17.4 William Williams Keen, “The Influence of Antivivisection on Character”, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 166, no. 18 & 19 (May 2 & 9, 1912): 651–58, 687–94. 18. John Harvey Kellogg, “The Ethics of Diet”, from Shall We Slay to Eat? (Battle Creek: Good Health Pub. Co., 1899), pp. 124-38, 141-47, 156-62 19. John Howard Moore, “The Ethical Kinship”, from The Universal Kinship (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1906), pp. 245-52, 272-82, 291- , 314-24 20. Charles Loomis Dana, “The Zoophil-Psychosis: A Modern Malady,” Medical Record 75, no. 10 (March 6, 1909): 381–83. 21. Francis Harold Rowley, extract from Slaughter-House Reform in the United States and the Opposing Forces (Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1913, pp. 1-18, 23-27 22. Marie L.Darrach, “Dogs Have a Soul – and Now They Have a Church.” Duluth News Tribune [Duluth, MN], May 15, 1921, 49. Index
  • Social & cultural history
  • Animal ecology
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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