Willie Lynch letter : making
of a slave
This
speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James
River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. Lynch was a British slave
owner in the West Indies.
He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his
methods to slave owners there. The term "lynching" is
derived from his last name.
Greetings
"Gentlemen. I greet you
here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and twelve.
First, I shall thank you, the
gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am
here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your
invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies,
where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the
oldest methods for control of slaves.
Ancient Rome's would
envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south
on the
James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version
of the Bible we Cherish, I saw enough to know that your problem
is
not unique. While Rome used cords of wood as crosses for standing
human bodies along its highways in great numbers, you are here
using the tree and the rope on occasions. I caught the whiff
of
a dead slave hanging from a tree, a couple miles back. You
are not only losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having
uprisings,
slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the
fields too long for maximum profit, You suffer occasional fires,
your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems
are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate
your
problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving
them. In my bag here, I HAVE A FULL PROOF METHOD FOR CONTROLLING
YOUR
BLACK SLAVES. I guarantee every one of you that if installed
correctly IT WILL CONTROL THE SLAVES FOR AT LEAST 300 HUNDREDS
YEARS. My
method is simple. Any member of your family or your overseer
can use it. I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES;
AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR,
DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES. These methods have worked
on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout
the South. Take this simple little list of differences and think
about them. On top of my list is "AGE" but it's there
only because it starts with an "A." The second is "COLOR" or
shade, there is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZES OF PLANTATIONS,
STATUS on plantations, ATTITUDE of owners, whether the slaves
live in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North, South, have
fine hair, course hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have
a list of differences, I shall give you a outline of action,
but
before that, I shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN
TRUST AND ENVY STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION.
The Black slaves after receiving this indoctrination shall
carry
on and will become self refueling and self generating for HUNDREDS
of years, maybe THOUSANDS. Don't forget you must pitch the
OLD
black Male vs. the YOUNG black Male, and the YOUNG black Male
against the OLD black male. You must use the DARK skin slaves
vs. the LIGHT skin slaves, and the LIGHT skin slaves vs. the
DARK
skin slaves. You must use the FEMALE vs. the MALE. And the
MALE vs. the FEMALE. You must also have you white servants
and over-
seers distrust all Blacks. But it is NECESSARY THAT YOUR SLAVES
TRUST AND DEPEND ON US. THEY MUST LOVE, RESPECT AND TRUST ONLY
US. Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control. Use them.
Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity.
IF USED INTENSELY FOR ONE YEAR, THE SLAVES THEMSELVES WILL
REMAIN
PERPETUALLY DISTRUSTFUL. Thank you gentlemen."
LET'S
MAKE A SLAVE
It was the interest and business
of slave holders to study human nature, and the slave nature in
particular, with a view to practical results. I and many of them
attained astonishing proficiency in this direction. They had to
deal not with earth, wood and stone, but with men and by every
regard they had for their own safety and prosperity they needed
to know the material on which they were to work. Conscious of
the injustice and wrong they were every hour perpetuating and
knowing what they themselves would do. Were they the victims of
such wrongs? They were constantly looking for the first signs
of the dreaded retribution. They watched, therefore with skilled
and practiced eyes, and learned to read with great accuracy, the
state of mind and heart of the slave, through his sable face.
Unusual sobriety, apparent abstractions, sullenness and indifference
indeed, any mood out of the common was afforded ground for suspicion
and inquiry. Frederick Douglas LET'S MAKE A SLAVE is a study of
the scientific process of man breaking and slave making. It describes
the rationale and results of the Anglo Saxons' ideas and methods
of insuring the master/slave relationship. LET'S MAKE A SLAVE
"The Original and Development of a Social Being Called "The
Negro." Let us make a slave. What do we need? First of all
we need a black n-word man, a pregnant n-word woman and her baby
n-word boy. Second, we will use the same basic principle that
we use in breaking a horse, combined with some more sustaining
factors. What we do with horses is that we break them from one
form of life to another that is we reduce them from their natural
state in nature. Whereas nature provides them with the natural
capacity to take care of their offspring, we break that natural
string of independence from them and thereby create a dependency
status, so that we may be able to get from them useful production
for our business and pleasure
CARDINAL
PRINCIPLES FOR MAKING A NEGRO
For fear that our future Generations
may not understand the principles of breaking both of the beast
together, the n-word and the horse. We understand that short range
planning economics results in periodic economic chaos; so that
to avoid turmoil in the economy, it requires us to have breath
and depth in long range comprehensive planning, articulating both
skill sharp perceptions. We lay down the following principles
for long range comprehensive economic planning. Both horse and
n-words is no good to the economy in the wild or natural state.
Both must be BROKEN and TIED together for orderly production.
For orderly future, special and particular attention must be paid
to the FEMALE and the YOUNGEST offspring. Both must be CROSSBRED
to produce a variety and division of labor. Both must be taught
to respond to a peculiar new LANGUAGE. Psychological and physical
instruction of CONTAINMENT must be created for both. We hold the
six cardinal principles as truth to be self evident, based upon
the following the discourse concerning the economics of breaking
and tying the horse and the n-word together, all inclusive of
the six principles laid down about. NOTE: Neither principle alone
will suffice for good economics. All principles must be employed
for orderly good of the nation. Accordingly, both a wild horse
and a wild or nature n-word is dangerous even if captured, for
they will have the tendency to seek their customary freedom, and
in doing so, might kill you in your sleep. You cannot rest. They
sleep while you are awake, and are awake while you are asleep.
They are DANGEROUS near the family house and it requires too much
labor to watch them away from the house. Above all, you cannot
get them to work in this natural state. Hence both the horse and
the n-word must be broken; that is breaking them from one form
of mental life to another. KEEP THE BODY TAKE THE MIND! In other
words break the will to resist. Now the breaking process is the
same for both the horse and the n-word, only slightly varying
in degrees. But as we said before, there is an art in long range
economic planning. YOU MUST KEEP YOUR EYE AND THOUGHTS ON THE
FEMALE and the OFFSPRING of the horse and the n-word. A brief
discourse in offspring development will shed light on the key
to sound economic principles. Pay little attention to the generation
of original breaking, but CONCENTRATE ON FUTURE GENERATION. Therefore,
if you break the FEMALE mother, she will BREAK the offspring in
its early years of development and when the offspring is old enough
to work, she will deliver it up to you, for her normal female
protective tendencies will have been lost in the original breaking
process. For example take the case of the wild stud horse, a female
horse and an already infant horse and compare the breaking process
with two captured n-word males in their natural state, a pregnant
n-word woman with her infant offspring. Take the stud horse, break
him for limited containment. Completely break the female horse
until she becomes very gentle, where as you or anybody can ride
her in her comfort. Breed the mare and the stud until you have
the desired offspring. Then you can turn the stud to freedom until
you need him again. Train the female horse where by she will eat
out of your hand, and she will in turn train the infant horse
to eat out of your hand also. When it comes to breaking the uncivilized
n-word, use the same process, but vary the degree and step up
the pressure, so as to do a complete reversal of the mind. Take
the meanest and most restless n-word, strip him of his clothes
in front of the remaining male n-words, the female, and the n-word
infant, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different horse
faced in opposite directions, set him a fire and beat both horses
to pull him apart in front of the remaining n-word. The next step
is to take a bull whip and beat the remaining n-word male to the
point of death, in front of the female and the infant. Don't kill
him, but PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN HIM,
for he can be useful for future breeding.
THE BREAKING
PROCESS OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN
Take the female and run a series
of tests on her to see if she will submit to your
desires willingly. Test her in every way, because she is the most
important factor for good economics. If she shows any sign of
resistance in submitting completely to your will, do not hesitate
to use the bull whip on her to extract that last bit of b-word
out of her. Take care not to kill her, for in doing so, you spoil
good economic. When in complete submission, she will train her
off springs in the early years to submit to labor when the become
of age. Understanding is the best thing. Therefore, we shall go
deeper into this area of the subject matter concerning what we
have produced here in this breaking process of the female n-word.
We have reversed the relationship in her natural uncivilized state
she would have a strong dependency on the uncivilized n-word male,
and she would have a limited protective tendency toward her independent
male offspring and would raise male off springs to be dependent
like her. Nature had provided for this type of balance. We reversed
nature by burning and pulling a civilized n-word apart and bull
whipping the other to the point of death, all in her presence.
By her being left alone, unprotected, with the MALE IMAGE DESTROYED,
the ordeal caused her to move from her psychological dependent
state to a frozen independent state. In this frozen psychological
state of independence, she will raise her MALE and female offspring
in reversed roles. For FEAR of the young males life she will psychologically
train him to be MENTALLY WEAK and DEPENDENT, but PHYSICALLY STRONG.
Because she has become psychologically independent, she will train
her FEMALE off springs to be psychological independent. What have
you got? You've got the N-WORD WOMAN OUT FRONT AND THE N-WORD
MAN BEHIND AND SCARED. This is a perfect situation of sound sleep
and economic. Before the breaking process, we had to be alertly
on guard at all times. Now we can sleep soundly, for out of frozen
fear his woman stands guard for us. He cannot get past her early
slave molding process. He is a good tool, now ready to be tied
to the horse at a tender age. By the time a n-word boy reaches
the age of sixteen, he is soundly broken in and ready for a long
life of sound and efficient work and the reproduction of a unit
of good labor force. Continually through the breaking of uncivilized
savage n-word, by throwing the n-word female savage into a frozen
psychological state of independence, by killing of the protective
male image, and by creating a submissive dependent mind of the
n-word male slave, we have created an orbiting cycle that turns
on its own axis forever, unless a phenomenon occurs and re shifts
the position of the male and female slaves. We show what we mean
by example. Take the case of the two economic slave units and
examine them close
THE NEGRO
MARRIAGE UNIT
We breed two n-word males with
two n-word females. Then we take the n-word male away from them
and keep them moving and working. Say one n-word female bears
a n-word female and the other bears a n-word male. Both n-word
females being without influence of the n-word male image, frozen
with a independent psychology, will raise their offspring into
reverse positions. The one with the female offspring will teach
her to be like herself, independent and negotiable (we negotiate
with her, through her, by her, negotiates her at will). The one
with the n-word male offspring, she being frozen subconscious
fear for his life, will raise him to be mentally dependent and
weak, but physically strong, in other words, body over mind. Now
in a few years when these two offspring's become fertile for early
reproduction we will mate and breed them and continue the cycle.
That is good, sound, and long range comprehensive planning.
WARNING:
POSSIBLE INTERLOPING NEGATIVES
Earlier we talked about the non
economic good of the horse and the n-word in their wild or natural
state; we talked out the principle of breaking and tying them
together for orderly production. Furthermore, we talked about
paying particular attention to the female savage and her offspring
for orderly future planning, then more recently we stated that,
by reversing the positions of the male and female savages, we
created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever unless
a phenomenon occurred and resift and positions of the male and
female savages. Our experts warned us about the possibility of
this phenomenon occurring, for they say that the mind has a strong
drive to correct and re-correct itself over a period of time if
I can touch some substantial original historical base, and they
advised us that the best way to deal with the phenomenon is to
shave off the brute's mental history and create a multiplicity
of phenomena of illusions, so that each illusion will twirl in
its own orbit, something similar to floating balls in a vacuum.
This creation of multiplicity of phenomena of illusions entails
the principle of crossbreeding the n-word and the horse as we
stated above, the purpose of which is to create a diversified
division of labor thereby creating different levels of labor and
different values of illusion at each connecting level of labor.
The results of which is the severance of the points of original
beginnings for each sphere illusion. Since we feel that the subject
matter may get more complicated as we proceed in laying down our
economic plan concerning the purpose, reason and effect of crossbreeding
horses and n-word, we shall lay down the following definition
terms for future generations. Orbiting cycle means a thing turning
in a given path. Axis means upon which or around which a body
turns. Phenomenon means something beyond ordinary conception and
inspires awe and wonder. Multiplicity means a great number. Means
a globe. Cross breeding a horse means taking a horse and breeding
it with an ass and you get a dumb backward ass long headed mule
that is not reproductive nor productive by itself. Crossbreeding
n-words mean taking so many drops of good white blood and putting
them into as many n-word women as possible, varying the drops
by the various tone that you want, and then letting them breed
with each other until another circle of color appears as you desire.
What this means is this; Put the n-words and the horse in a breeding
pot, mix some assess and some good white blood and what do you
get? You got a multiplicity of colors of ass backward, unusual
n-words, running, tied to a backward ass long headed mules, the
one productive of itself, the other sterile. (The one constant,
the other dying, we keep the n-word constant for we may replace
the mules for another tool) both mule and n-word tied to each
other, neither knowing where the other came from and neither productive
for itself, nor without each other.
CONTROLLED
LANGUAGE
Crossbreeding completed, for
further severance from their original beginning, WE
MUST COMPLETELY ANNIHILATE THE MOTHER TONGUE of both the new n-word
and the new mule and institute a new language that involves the
new life's work of both. You know language is a peculiar institution.
It leads to the heart of a people. The more a foreigner knows
about the language of another country the more he is able to move
through all levels of that society. Therefore, if the foreigner
is an enemy of the country, to the extent that he knows the body
of the language, to that extent is the country vulnerable to attack
or invasion of a foreign culture. For example, if you take a slave,
if you teach him all about your language, he will know all your
secrets, and he is then no more a slave, for you can't fool him
any longer, and BEING A FOOL IS ONE OF THE BASIC INGREDIENTS OF
AN INCIDENTS TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SLAVERY SYSTEM. For example,
if you told a slave that he must perform in getting out "our
crops" and he knows the language well, he would know that
"our crops" didn't mean "our crops" and the
slavery system would break down, for he would relate on the basis
of what "our crops" really meant. So you have to be
careful in setting up the new language for the slaves would soon
be in your house, talking to you as "man to man" and
that is death to our economic system. In addition, the definitions
of words or terms are only a minute part of the process. Values
are created and transported by communication through the body
of the language. A total society has many interconnected value
system. All the values in the society have bridges of language
to connect them for orderly working in the society. But for these
language bridges, these many value systems would sharply clash
and cause internal strife or civil war, the degree of the conflict
being determined by the magnitude of the issues or relative opposing
strength in whatever form. For example, if you put a slave in
a hog pen and train him to live there and incorporate in him to
value it as a way of life completely, the biggest problem you
would have out of him is that he would worry you about provisions
to keep the hog pen clean, or the same hog pen and make a slip
and incorporate something in his language where by he comes to
value a house more than he does his hog pen, you got a problem.
He will soon be in your house.
(Additional Note: = "Henty
Berry, speaking in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1832, described
the situation as it existed in many parts of the South at this
time: "We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by
which light may enter their (the slaves) minds. If we could extinguish
the capacity to see the light, our work would be complete; they
would then be on a level with the beasts of the field and we should
be safe. I am not certain that we would not do it, if we could
find out the process and that on the plea of necessity."
From Brown America, The story of a
New Race by Edwin R. Embree. 1931 The Viking Press.
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