Item 149632 - Jeremiah Hacker, Portland, ca. 1865
- Item 149632 - Jeremiah Hacker, Portland, ca. 1865
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Image Info Starting in 1845, Jeremiah Hacker of Brunswick and Portland, who grew up in a Quaker family, published the pro-vegetarian newspaper, the Portland Pleasure Boat.
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Hacker's journalism often connected eating meat to women’s rights concerns. U.S. vegetarians in the 19th and 20th centuries regularly discussed the link between social justice topics and animal welfare.
