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.
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