ABSTRACT
Tom Regan draws connections between two social justice movements: the nineteenth-century antislavery movement in the United States and the contemporary animal rights movement. Both exhibit the split between those who insist on the immediate end to unjust practice (abolitionists) and those who are gradualists or reformists. It is the abolitionists who include those who are willing to commit acts of violence. A second split is between those who work with the government and those who refuse to do so, and a third is between those who condone violence against property in defense of animals and those who do not. Regan recommends “incremental abolitionist change” as a shared agenda.
