The Willie Lynch Letter remains one of the most controversial and provocative documents in the study of the African American experience. Purportedly delivered by a British slave owner on the banks of the James River, the speech outlines a horrific "scientific" method for breaking the human spirit and ensuring the perpetual enslavement of Black people through mental rather than physical chains. This edition provides a stark look at the tactics described in the letter-strategies designed to pit slave against slave based on age, color, gender, and status. By fostering distrust and division, the methods outlined were intended to create a "self-refueling and self-generating" system of subservience that would last for hundreds of years. Enhanced with powerful, period-style illustrations that visually map the mechanics of systemic control.
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Willie Lynch Letter and The Making of A Slave is a speech delivered by Willie Lynch to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony. The speaker, William Lynch, is said to have been a slave owner in the West Indies, and was summoned to Virginia in 1712; in part due to several slave revolts in the area prior to his visit, and more so because of his reputation of being an authoritarian and strict slave master. The Willie Lynch Letter is an account of a short speech given by Willie Lynch, in which he tells other slave owners that he has discovered the secret to controlling enslaved Africans by setting them against one another. Artikel-Nr. 00108578600
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Willie Lynch Letter and The Making of A Slave is a speech delivered by Willie Lynch to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony. The speaker, William Lynch, is said to have been a slave owner in the West Indies, and was summoned to Virginia in 1712; in part due to several slave revolts in the area prior to his visit, and more so because of his reputation of being an authoritarian and strict slave master. The Willie Lynch Letter is an account of a short speech given by Willie Lynch, in which he tells other slave owners that he has discovered the secret to controlling enslaved Africans by setting them against one another. Artikel-Nr. 00108581756
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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 48 pages. French language. 7.60x4.90x0.30 inches. In Stock. Artikel-Nr. x-9562916553
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