THE WILLIE LYNCH SPEECH OF 1712

[As you read this, think of how employees today are controlled similarly by means of "divide and conquer" tactics - beginning with the artificial distinction of management and labor, as if "management" were some aristocracy when they are but employees subject to the same laws and rules, and ending with the discrimination by social groups and isolation of those who protest injustice, regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, etc.  In short, employees are treated as slaves to be subjugated.]

To the slave-owners of Virginia

FREDERICK DOUGLAS SPEAKS ON WILLIE LYNCH

"The following treatise, to the knowledgeable, will be the missing link
that has been sought to explain how we were put into the condition
that we find ourselves in today. It confirms the fact that the
slaveholder tried to leave nothing to chance when it came to his
property; his slaves. It demonstrates, how out of necessity, the
slave holder had to derive a system for perpetuating his cash crop,
the slave, while at the same time insulating himself from retribution
by his unique property.

A careful analysis of the following "handbook", will hopefully change
the ignorant among our people who say "Why study slavery?" Those
narrow minded people will be shown that the condition of our people
is due to a scientific and psychological blue print for the perpetuation
of the mental condition that allowed slavery to flourish. the
slaveholder was keenly aware of t breeding principles of his livestock
and the following treatise demonstrated that he thoroughly used
those principles on his human live stock as well, the African Slave,
and added a debilitating psychological component as well.

It was the interest and business of slaveholders to study human
nature, and the slave nature in particular, with a view to practical
results, 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
perpetrating 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 stable face.
Unusual sobriety, apparent abstraction, sullenness, and indifference,
indeed any mood out of the common way afforded ground for
suspicion an inquiry. "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 Saxon's ideas and methods of insuring the
master/slave relationship."

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 would envy us if my program is
implemented. As our boat sailed south of 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 old highway in great
numbers, you are here using the tree and rope on occasion.

I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are not
only losing valuable stock by hanging, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your
crops are sometimes left in the field too long for maximum profit, and you suffer occasional fires.
Your animals are killed, Gentlemen you know what your problems are; I do not need to
elaborate, I am here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of
solving them.

In my bag here, I have a foolproof method for controlling your Nigger slaves. I guarantee
everyone of you that if installed correctly, it will control the slaves for at least 300 years. My
methods are simple and members of your family of 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, think about them. On top of my list is "Age" but it is there only
because it starts with an "a". The second is color or shade. There is intelligence, size, sex, size
of plantation, status of plantation, attitude of owner, whether the slave lives in the valley, on a hill,
East, West, North or South, have fine or coarse hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list
of differences, I shall give you an outline of action but before that I shall assure you that distrust is
stronger than trust and envy is stronger than adulation, respect or admiration.

The nigger slave after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self refueling
and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Don't forget that you must pitch the
old nigger slave vs the young nigger slave, and the young nigger slave against the old nigger slave.
You must use the light skin slaves vs the dark skin slaves and the dark skin slaves vs the the light
skin slaves. You must also have your white servants and overseers distrust all niggers but it is
necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us. They must Love, Respect, and Trust only us
only.

Gentlemen, these kits are our keys to control, use them. Have your wives and children use
them, never miss an opportunity. My plan is guaranteed, and the good thing about this plan is
that if used intensely for one year, the slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful.

Thank you Gentlemen,

Willie Lynch