Willie Lynch Letter Research Paper

Willie Lynch letter: The Making of a Slave This paper will explain the methods of making a slave according to Willie Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. Willie lynch was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to the slave owners there. He gave his speech on the banks of the James River. Willie Lynch believed he had a foolproof method for controlling the negro slaves. He guaranteed everyone of the slave owners that if his methods were used correctly it would control the Negro slaves for at least three hundred years. It was in the interest of slave owners to study human nature, the slave nature in particular, with a view to practical results. Willie Lynch (1712) outlined a number of differences among the slaves and he takes their differences and makes them bigger, He used fear, distrust and envy for control purposes. At the top of his list of differences was age because it starts with an A. Second on the list is shade or “Color.” other differences that were on his list was size, sex, intelligence and the sizes of plantations and status. Willie Lynch assured the other slave owners that DISTRUST is …show more content…
With her being left alone and unprotected with the male image destroyed, this caused her to move from her psychological dependent state to a frozen independent state. In her frozen state of psychological independence with her being left alone she will now raise her male and female offsprings in reversed roles, where the men are raised to be dependent and the women are raised to be independent. The women, out of deep fear of their young male child’s life will train him to be mentally weak and to be dependent on the slave holder and on the women slaves, but still physically strong. The young female child is trained to be obedient to the slave holder, but to not trust any male