On a June day in 1923, a substantial Kenya farmer, Jasper Abraham, son of the Bishop of Norwich, ordered an African employee named Kitosh to deliver to the farm a horse that had been left at a railway station. When Abraham was told that the employee had been seen riding the horse, rather than walking it as he had been told to do, he flew into a tirade, demanding over and over again to know why the “boy” had defied his instructions and ridden it. The African finally replied that he was not a thief. Taken aback by this “insolent” answer, Abraham flogged him with an ox rein for fifteen minutes, then, tiring, ordered other African employees to continue the flogging, finishing off after a few more minutes by personally delivering a kick to the head. He then had him tied to a post in the storeroom for the night. By morning the man was dead. He died, as Dane Kennedy has astutely observed, “because he had ridden the European's horse.”