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Dominik Ohrem is Research Associate at MESH - Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities and Postdoctoral Researcher at HESCOR (Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human and Earth System Coupled Research) at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research is focused on the history and philosophy of human-animal and multispecies relations.

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Volume II continues the discussion of animals/animality in U.S. social and scientific thought to address the ways in which the nexus of ideas surrounding human-animal distinctions became intertwined with interhuman hierarchies and power relations.

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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)

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.

9. Improving the "Human Harvest": The Promises of American Eugenics (1907-1915)

10. 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", 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.

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

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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