Willie Lynch Theory The term “Lynching” derived around the time of the American Revolutionary war. Lynching is defined as killing someone for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. This act in the United States became associated with punishment that is directed toward “black slaves”. This will eventually bring us to December 25, 1712 Willie Lynch brought the lynch letter to the colony of Virginia. The Lynch letter is about how to use the differences of “black slaves” against each other instead of lynching them. This process would help the slave industry because more slaves would live and be mentally disciplined into conforming to slave masters. The unity amongst slaves vanished and the slave industries began keeping or making more profit , all because of this theory.
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This argument was very valid to why he felt his methods would work better. Lynch would use distrust, envy , fear, and differences amongst the slaves to keep them separated and he made the differences a much larger problem. Lynch used Age, Color , sex,size, height,intelligence,status all things that could possibly be different to solve the problems instead of lynching. This method worked ,because now the slaves had no unity , no common grounds of thought and it altered their perception towards each other. At this rate no unity means less cooperation, which will keep the salves from running away. They put slaves together with different languages so they couldn't really communicate to help each other or plan to run away. The in house slaves and field slaves rarely got along, because they thought it was a “hierarchy” to being a slave. The light skin vs. dark skin came to play. Male vs. female and many other tactics and indoctrinations used on
This argument was very valid to why he felt his methods would work better. Lynch would use distrust, envy , fear, and differences amongst the slaves to keep them separated and he made the differences a much larger problem. Lynch used Age, Color , sex,size, height,intelligence,status all things that could possibly be different to solve the problems instead of lynching. This method worked ,because now the slaves had no unity , no common grounds of thought and it altered their perception towards each other. At this rate no unity means less cooperation, which will keep the salves from running away. They put slaves together with different languages so they couldn't really communicate to help each other or plan to run away. The in house slaves and field slaves rarely got along, because they thought it was a “hierarchy” to being a slave. The light skin vs. dark skin came to play. Male vs. female and many other tactics and indoctrinations used on