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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This book was written by an English slave owner whose name is where the term "Lynching" is derived from his last name. The book was designed to help other slave owners keep their slaves under control with little effort by the owner. Some of the things which Willie Lynch mentions in his book are still in existence to today. He was so confident in his work that he states "The black slaves, after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self refuelling and self generating for Hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Don't forget, you must pitch Old black males vs the young black male.... You must use the Dark skin slaves vs. the Light skin slaves, etc.
I have shared this book with my sons school given to all my children to read. In fact this is my second book as the first went missing after a loan to my son's friend.
Definite must read, must buy.
I have shared this book with my sons school given to all my children to read. In fact this is my second book as the first went missing after a loan to my son's friend.
Definite must read, must buy.
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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This letter is not written by an eighteenth century slave owner - it is one of these things that has been started as a (clever) joke, and taken on a momentum of its own because ullible people don't check historical facts.
Before you go crackers, I'm not claiming that slave-owners didn't use deliberate tactics to control the people they enslaved - just that this document was not written by any of them.
Black people actually weaken their case if they base it on such shaky evidence, especially when there is a wealth of genuine evidence of slaveholder brutality.
Something which is rarely addressed is "slave-owning" in the guise of market forces. Read Orwell ("Road to Wigan Pier"), London ("People of the Abyss") and Sinclair "The Jungle"). Here we see "slaves" who are in a worse state in many ways than those owned by plantation owners - those at least had a value to their owners. People who are kept at the bottom of the social/work heap can be overworked and abused with impunity by their "owners", who dump them to starve when it suits, and make sure that they never get a job again of they try to better their conditions. They did not even have the value of a slave.
I am not trying to minimise or excuse the slave trade - it was a horrific part of world history, and still continues today. It was the worse because it was carried out largely by people who claimed to be Christians, but who broke every one of Christ's admonishments. I cannot even imagine the psychological as well as the physical damage which would be done to anyone who can be bought and sold, and bred or refused the opportunity to breed, housed and fed or neglected and starved like an animal. It is beyond hideous.
What I am trying to do is ask people to put things into context and base their research and argument on a sound basis. No-one needs to make up horrors - they are well documented.
Before you go crackers, I'm not claiming that slave-owners didn't use deliberate tactics to control the people they enslaved - just that this document was not written by any of them.
Black people actually weaken their case if they base it on such shaky evidence, especially when there is a wealth of genuine evidence of slaveholder brutality.
Something which is rarely addressed is "slave-owning" in the guise of market forces. Read Orwell ("Road to Wigan Pier"), London ("People of the Abyss") and Sinclair "The Jungle"). Here we see "slaves" who are in a worse state in many ways than those owned by plantation owners - those at least had a value to their owners. People who are kept at the bottom of the social/work heap can be overworked and abused with impunity by their "owners", who dump them to starve when it suits, and make sure that they never get a job again of they try to better their conditions. They did not even have the value of a slave.
I am not trying to minimise or excuse the slave trade - it was a horrific part of world history, and still continues today. It was the worse because it was carried out largely by people who claimed to be Christians, but who broke every one of Christ's admonishments. I cannot even imagine the psychological as well as the physical damage which would be done to anyone who can be bought and sold, and bred or refused the opportunity to breed, housed and fed or neglected and starved like an animal. It is beyond hideous.
What I am trying to do is ask people to put things into context and base their research and argument on a sound basis. No-one needs to make up horrors - they are well documented.
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The Book of a Lifetime
22 Nov 2009
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This book is a true work of what is in today's society. I just wonder if anyone will ever realize that this book tells our past, and our present.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
If not truth, it definitly inspires self reflection
10 Jan 2012
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I have read all of the harrowing comments, tales, advice, slander and everything else surrounding this letter and its authenticity. I have no desire to acknowledge if it is real, however, the words themselves are what strike an iron in my heart. Someone obviously knows how to create dissent, and destroy people, and herein lies the instructions. I am shamed to say that I can see how well it works. Whether you are a believer or not that this was created for African slaves is not the question. How can you prevent this from EVER happening (again) is what you should ask yourself.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
the mind of a slave holder
31 Dec 2011
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This is required reading of all who must know the mind of those who sought to have power over the minds and bodies of our fellow Americans. This book will make you mad as hell so that slavery will never happen again.
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