Alberta

What is legal personhood?

Should humans feel threatened by nonhuman persons, which can range from cognitively complex chimpanzees to corporations that live in perpetuity? Are humans the only creatures with emotions, morality and culture? Are all humans entitled to equal rights and protection—even those suspected of crimes, whose freedom and lives are dis-proportionally disenfranchised?

Meet Alberta, a seventeen-year-old chimp with a brain similar to Einstein’s in form and function. With an affinity for abstract math and an IQ of 131, she is arguably smarter than most humans. Alberta wants rights and protections—to become the first breathing nonhuman person recognized by American law.

Yet American law has never treated all its human residents equally. Our Lives Matter is a community protest group focused on the police killing of unarmed civilians. When leaders learn that a secret police order is working to avert a nationwide race war/civil war instigated by a group of selfish businessmen, unlikely allies learn trust and respect in the face of America’s greatest crisis and most defining moment.

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Alberta by Marcus McGee
ISBN – 978-1-941859-67-4
B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound
320 pages
Available for Pre-Sale: Now
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Retail: $17.95

Read two Sample Chapters from Alberta

Steven M. Wise, J.D., Are Animals Persons Too?