Beasts of Burden in History: Is It Ever Okay to Use Animal Labor?

Before engines, pack animals like horses and camels built empires, yet their stories remain untold. Let’s look into the invisible labor that shaped civilizations and the ethical questions it raises about our humanity.

Jaime Martínez Bowness
Short History
Published in
8 min readApr 29, 2024

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Two horses pulling a cart in the Middle Ages.
Image by author using DALL-E.

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