The Evolution of the Abolition Movement

In 1824, the SPCA brought 63 offenders before the courts but all of them had been from Smithfield markets. The aristocrats were up in arms about a fruit and veg seller who was cruel to his donkey. Whereas there were just as many cruelties to animals being perpetrated in the names of these people in their country estates. Just didn't do to point those out. So it was easier to go after people who already looked down upon as being the symbol of this crusade. And if you did care about animal rights, you weren't like those people. You were a more rarefied, more sensitive class of human being. I think it's no coincidence that a

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