How Black Beauty Changed Horse Welfare and Redefined the Animal Story

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is often considered a children's classic, but it had a greater purpose. Widely credited with encouraging better treatment of horses and addressing animal cruelty, the novel revolutionized the use of storytelling in animal rights. After Black Beauty was published in 1877, it saw the rise of what's considered the realistic animal story and paved the way for more stories that featured horses.
Sources:
blog.britishmuseum.org/horses...
www.ijser.org/researchpaper/A...
Video clips from Black Beauty (1994 film)
Illustrations:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Little Red Riding Hood (1843)
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables; Literally Translated From The Greek (1867)
Paintings of Victorian England by Louise Rayner (1832-1924)
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[@peggyharris7849]

I read that book six times in a row when I was in elementary school. My mother finally wrested it away from me and put Little Women in my hands, but I missed Black Beauty. I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for animals ever since.

[@shaanparwani]

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[@siennamargeaux8413]

I remember how I couldn't stop crying while reading the book. The cruelty to horses was depicted heartbreakingly in the story.

[@Flufferz626]

The Ginger death scene still sticks with me to this day.

[@afreeman63]

Me too

[@SlapstickGenius23]

I watched a black beauty film at a secondary school called Selwyn college. It’s dark and solemn but not too scary though, as it’s based on various preteen friendly versions of the original story.

[@wendywander7]

My mother read Black Beauty and Beautiful Joe (about a dog) to my sister and I when we were children. As a teen I read the Black Stallion series, and also some of Marguerite Henry's books like King of the Wind. Thank you for your interesting content!

[@unfabgirl]

I adore listening to you talk about literary impact

[@izabelbrekilien9658]

I grew up watching the TV series Black beauty, that is probably where my everlasting love for horses comes from. I also read the books by Walter Farley (but really loved just the first), my friend Flicka, but I have never read the novel by Anna Sewell - it's on my shelf, though, I'll get to it !

[@lunar_lotus4841]

The 1994 movie that I saw on VHS tape, and re watched many a time as a child, left a big impact on me as a character that I could connect to ant relate to as well. This movie still holds a Very special and Significant place in my Heart still to this Day.

[@snowprincess6430]

I love horses! 🐎 I just recently went on a private horseback ride tour. It was wonderful! I wish one day I can have my own horses and taking care of them. Thanks for your video!

[@Wolfspirat]

I think its interesting how much anna sewel knew about horses for an victorian gal. At one point she wrote about ginger having a back injury clearly caused by the upright riders seat of that days - the hunt seat we know today, which lifts the weight off the horses back during the jumps, was to be invented 20 years after Black beauty was published. Not to mention her very progressive opinions on docking or how to treat not only your horses but your workers as well.

[@SwiftFoxProductions]

Actually, lots of Victorian women rode horses and it was thought of as a perfectly respectable form of exercise for young ladies (fashionable and functional riding habits for ladies were very common). Also, I know Anna Sewell had a lot of trouble walking due to a childhood ankle injury so, she likely had to use horses to get around a lot (if not necessarily on horseback, then in horse-drawn carriages). So, she would've been around horses quite frequently and likely picked up a lot of her knowledge through firsthand observations.

[@tomrox8921]

Thank you Ms Anna.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

The original story is actually for adults and features a lot of violence, including animal cruelty.

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"Black 🖤 beauty by Anna Sewell."

[@unaanguila]

Thanks for sharing!

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That was the best movie black stallion in 1970s

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which city is depicted in the painting in 1:03

[@BytheBook]

Chester, UK

[@HelenCarberry-qo5hw]

Black Beauty book and the tv show of the same name and the film's of the same name

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