Willie Lynch Letter Summary

After reading the Willie Lynch letter, I found his theory fascinating. When I say fascinating I don’t mean that in a good way. The fact that he came up was able to come up with a whole system for controlling his slaves proves to you that he was a very intelligent man. However, the only reason why his system was so successful was due to the fact that slaves weren’t allowed any access to education. I guarantee you if African American were allowed the right to read or any type of access to education like Caucasians at the time, then his system for controlling them would have been ineffective. This is my he came up with the phrase “keep the body take the mind” was to establish once you have control over their mind they break the will to resist. …show more content…
He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1972 to teach his methods to other slave owners. His method for controlling slaves was simple. The methods for controlling slaves was to use the number of the differences that the behold against. These differences vary from skin color to size. According to Lynch “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 white servants and overseers [who] distrust all Black” (Willie lynch letter: the making of slave). He knew what he was doing, because when power over their mind they start to snitch on each other. When that happens they won’t trust each other no more, they will start to inform the boss of whatever everyone is doing