Timeline of Quotes Against Slavery of Animals
Quotes Against Slavery of Animals in Historical Literature;
Analogies to Human Slavery, Animal Slavery-Servitude, Animal as Slaves
 Quotes-Slavery of Animals: Victorian Age
[1837]
Martin Farquhar Tupper: The dog, thy humble friend, thy trusting, honest
friend; "The ass, thine uncomplaining slave, drudging from morn to even; "The
lamb, and the timorous hare, and the laboring ox at plough; "The speckled trout,
basking in the shallow, and the partridge, gleaning in the stubble, "And the
stag at bay, and the worm in thy path, and the wild bird pining in captivity, "And
all things that minister alike to thy life and thy comfort and thy pride, "Testify
with one sad voice that man is a cruel master.
[1838] Martin Farquhar Tupper: But for some better life, in what strange sort "Were justice, mixed with mercy, dealt to these? "Innocent slaves of sordid guilty man, "Poor unthank'd drudges, toiling to his will
[1838] William Hamilton Drummond: Some who are proud of their reason wan their dignity in the scale of creation, but who are assuredly neither philosophers nor Christians, look down on animals with infinite scorn, and treat them as if they were automata or self-moving machines, and seen scarcely willing to admit that they are composed of nerve and muscle like themselves. The endeavour, too, to justify their violations on much the same principles, and with the same regard to good feeling, that a slave-dealer endeavours to justify his brutality to negroes, by pleading the inferiority of their intellect; as if that very inferiority, admitting it to exist, did not establish a claim to protection, instead of affording a plea for injury and abuse.
[1842] William Ellery Channing: The domestic slave is well fed, we are told, and so are the domestic animals. A nobleman's horse in England is better lodged and more pampered than the operatives in Manchester. The grain which the horse consumes might support a starving family. How sleek and shinning his coat! How gay and rich his comparison! But why is he thus curried, and pampered, and bedecked? To be bitted and curbed; and them to be mounted by his master, who arms himself with whip and spur to put the animal to his speed; and if any accident mar his strength or swiftness, he is sold from his luxuriant stall to be flayed, overworked, and hastened out of life by the merciless drayman. Suppose the nobleman should say to the half-starved, ragged operative of Manchester, "I will give up my horse, and feed and clothe you with the sumptuousness, on condition that I may mount you daily with lash and spurs, and sell you when I can make a profitable bargain." Would you have the operative, for the sake of good fare and clothes, take the lot of the brute? Or, in other words, become a slave? What reply would the hear of an Old-England or New-England labourer make to such a proposal? And yet, if there be any soundness in the argument drawn from the slave's comforts, he ought to accept it thankfully and greedily. Such arguments for slavery are insults.…Be the comforts of a slave what they may, there are no compensation for the degradation, insolence, indignities, ignorance, servility, scars, and violations of domestic rights to which he is exposed.
[1875] James Macaulay¹: [Since] the barriers offered by difference of nation, of country, of race, have been gradually removed…it is not surprising that the exercise of compassion should be extended beyond the equally arbitrary limit of our own species. (James Macaulay, Plea for Mercy to Animals [1875], "Claims of the Lower Animals to Humane Treatment from Man")
[1875] James Macaulay²: It is only in recent times that slavery and the slave trade have been regarded by common consent as contrary to the spirit of Christianity ; and many evils are still countenanced among nations nominally Christian. We need not wonder, then, at the tardy recognition of the claims of humanity to animals as a moral duty. (James Macaulay, Plea for Mercy to Animals [1875], "Claims of the Lower Animals to Humane Treatment from Man")
[1875] James Macaulay³: In the shipment and sea transport of cattle, sheep, and other live animals…the horrors are like those we used to read of in the holds of the slave-trade ships.
[1879] Edward Byron Nicholson: And so it comes to pass that the mention of the rights of animals in many a drawing-room of to-day might, I dare say, cause as much mirth as would once have been caused by the proposals to do away with slavery and to give the people votes.
[1892] Henry Salt¹: The present condition of the more highly organized domestic animals is in many ways very analogous to that of the negro slaves of a hundred years ago: look back, and you will find in their case precisely the same exclusion from the common pale of humanity: the same hypocritical fallacies, to justify that exclusion; and, as a consequence, the same deliberate stubborn denial of their social 'rights'.
[1892] Henry Salt²: Slavery is at all times hateful and iniquitous, whether it be imposed on mankind or on the lower races.
[1892]
Henry Salt³: This, I contend, is a flagrant violation of the rights of the lower animals, as those rights are now beginning to be apprehended by the humaner conscience of mankind. It has been well said that "to keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that youmay eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.
[1884] Frances Power Cobbe: If, when the conscience of the nation was first roused on the subject of negro slavery, they had indolently accepted the assurance of the slaveholders that the institution was "useful," and that "every precaution was taken" to prevent Legree from flogging Uncle Tom to death, and had soothed their flocks by referring complacently to couleur-de-rose reports drawn up from memoranda furnished exclusively by slave-drivers, then their position would have been precisely parallel to that which [many of the clergy] now occup[y].
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