The opening scene of the movie Amazing Grace, which chronicles 18th and 19th century abolitionist William Wilberforce’s battle to stop the British slave trade, portrays a true event in Wilberforce’s life in which he intervened when he saw a coach driver beating and kicking a fallen horse. It’s a heart-wrenching scene, and no doubt many people in the theater were thinking to themselves, “Thank God, we’re more civilized than that today.” But as I watched, I was reminded of a recent incident in New York City involving a carriage horse driver who beat his collapsed horse so viciously that passersby, including a police officer, tried to intervene. The man was never charged with any crime, and later that same night, the horse died.
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