The Making Of A Slave
This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. The term "lynching" is derived
from his last name.
Table Of Contents
Greetings Lets Make A Slave Cardinal Principals For Making A Negro
The Breaking Process Of The African Women The Negro Marriage Unit Controlled Language
Greetings
"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's would envy us
if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on 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 highways in great numbers, you are here
using the tree and the rope on occasions. I caught the whiff of a dead slave
hanging from a tree, a couple miles back. You are not only losing valuable stock
by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are
sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, You suffer occasional
fires, your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems are; I do
not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to
introduce you to a method of solving them. In my bag here,
I HAVE A FULL PROOF METHOD FOR CONTROLLING YOUR
BLACK SLAVES. I guarantee every one of you that if installed correctly IT
WILL CONTROL THE SLAVES FOR AT LEAST 300 HUNDREDS YEARS. My method is
simple. Any member of your family or your 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 and think about them. On top of my list is "AGE"
but it's there only because it starts with an "A."
The second is "COLOR" or shade, there is INTELLIGENCE,
SIZE, SEX, SIZES OF PLANTATIONS, STATUS on plantations, ATTITUDE
of owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North,
South, have fine hair, course hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a
list of differences, I shall give you a outline of action, but before that, I
shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST AND
ENVY STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION. The Black slaves
after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self
refueling and self generating for HUNDREDS of
years, maybe THOUSANDS. Don't forget you must pitch
the OLD black Male vs. the YOUNG
black Male, and the YOUNG black Male against the OLD
black male. 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 you white servants and over- seers distrust all Blacks. But
it is NECESSARY THAT YOUR SLAVES TRUST AND DEPEND ON US.
THEY MUST LOVE, RESPECT AND TRUST ONLY US. Gentlemen, these kits are your
keys to control. Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an
opportunity. IF USED INTENSELY FOR ONE YEAR, THE SLAVES
THEMSELVES WILL REMAIN PERPETUALLY DISTRUSTFUL. Thank you
gentlemen."
LET'S MAKE
A SLAVE
It was the interest and business of slave holders to study human nature, and
the slave nature in particular, with a view to practical results. I 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 perpetuating 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 sable
face. Unusual sobriety, apparent abstractions, sullenness and indifference
indeed, any mood out of the common was afforded ground for suspicion and
inquiry. Frederick Douglas 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 Saxons' ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave
relationship. LET'S MAKE A SLAVE "The Original and Development of a Social
Being Called "The Negro." Let us make a slave. What do we need? First
of all we need a black n-word man, a pregnant n-word woman and her baby n-word
boy. Second, we will use the same basic principle that we use in breaking a
horse, combined with some more sustaining factors. What we do with horses is
that we break them from one form of life to another that is we reduce them from
their natural state in nature. Whereas nature provides them with the natural
capacity to take care of their offspring, we break that natural string of
independence from them and thereby create a dependency status, so that we may be
able to get from them useful production for our business and pleasure
CARDINAL PRINCIPLES
FOR MAKING A NEGRO
For fear that our future Generations may not understand the principles of
breaking both of the beast together, the n-word and the horse. We understand
that short range planning economics results in periodic economic chaos; so that
to avoid turmoil in the economy, it requires us to have breath and depth in long
range comprehensive planning, articulating both skill sharp perceptions. We lay
down the following principles for long range comprehensive economic planning.
Both horse and n-words is no good to the economy in the wild or natural state.
Both must be BROKEN and TIED together for orderly production. For orderly
future, special and particular attention must be paid to the FEMALE and the
YOUNGEST offspring. Both must be CROSSBRED to produce a variety and division of
labor. Both must be taught to respond to a peculiar new LANGUAGE. Psychological
and physical instruction of CONTAINMENT must be created for both. We hold the
six cardinal principles as truth to be self evident, based upon the following
the discourse concerning the economics of breaking and tying the horse and the
n-word together, all inclusive of the six principles laid down about. NOTE:
Neither principle alone will suffice for good economics. All principles must be
employed for orderly good of the nation. Accordingly, both a wild horse and a
wild or nature n-word is dangerous even if captured, for they will have the
tendency to seek their customary freedom, and in doing so, might kill you in
your sleep. You cannot rest. They sleep while you are awake, and are awake while
you are asleep. They are DANGEROUS near the family house and it requires too
much labor to watch them away from the house. Above all, you cannot get them to
work in this natural state. Hence both the horse and the n-word must be broken;
that is breaking them from one form of mental life to another. KEEP THE BODY
TAKE THE MIND! In other words break the will to resist. Now the breaking process
is the same for both the horse and the n-word, only slightly varying in degrees.
But as we said before, there is an art in long range economic planning. YOU MUST
KEEP YOUR EYE AND THOUGHTS ON THE FEMALE and the OFFSPRING of the horse and the
n-word. A brief discourse in offspring development will shed light on the key to
sound economic principles. Pay little attention to the generation of original
breaking, but CONCENTRATE ON FUTURE GENERATION. Therefore, if you break the
FEMALE mother, she will BREAK the offspring in its early years of development
and when the offspring is old enough to work, she will deliver it up to you, for
her normal female protective tendencies will have been lost in the original
breaking process. For example take the case of the wild stud horse, a female
horse and an already infant horse and compare the breaking process with two
captured n-word males in their natural state, a pregnant n-word woman with her
infant offspring. Take the stud horse, break him for limited containment.
Completely break the female horse until she becomes very gentle, where as you or
anybody can ride her in her comfort. Breed the mare and the stud until you have
the desired offspring. Then you can turn the stud to freedom until you need him
again. Train the female horse where by she will eat out of your hand, and she
will in turn train the infant horse to eat out of your hand also. When it comes
to breaking the uncivilized n-word, use the same process, but vary the degree
and step up the pressure, so as to do a complete reversal of the mind. Take the
meanest and most restless n-word, strip him of his clothes in front of the
remaining male n-words, the female, and the n-word infant, tar and feather him,
tie each leg to a different horse faced in opposite directions, set him a fire
and beat both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining n-word. The
next step is to take a bull whip and beat the remaining n-word male to the point
of death, in front of the female and the infant. Don't kill him, but PUT THE
FEAR OF GOD IN HIM,
for he can be useful for future breeding.
THE BREAKING PROCESS
OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN
Take the female and run a series of tests on her to see if she will submit to
your
desires willingly. Test her in every way, because she is the most important
factor for good economics. If she shows any sign of resistance in submitting
completely to your will, do not hesitate to use the bull whip on her to extract
that last bit of b-word out of her. Take care not to kill her, for in doing so,
you spoil good economic. When in complete submission, she will train her off
springs in the early years to submit to labor when the become of age.
Understanding is the best thing. Therefore, we shall go deeper into this area of
the subject matter concerning what we have produced here in this breaking
process of the female n-word. We have reversed the relationship in her natural
uncivilized state she would have a strong dependency on the uncivilized n-word
male, and she would have a limited protective tendency toward her independent
male offspring and would raise male off springs to be dependent like her. Nature
had provided for this type of balance. We reversed nature by burning and pulling
a civilized n-word apart and bull whipping the other to the point of death, all
in her presence. By her being left alone, unprotected, with the MALE IMAGE
DESTROYED, the ordeal caused her to move from her psychological dependent state
to a frozen independent state. In this frozen psychological state of
independence, she will raise her MALE and female offspring in reversed roles.
For FEAR of the young males life she will psychologically train him to be
MENTALLY WEAK and DEPENDENT, but PHYSICALLY STRONG. Because she has become
psychologically independent, she will train her FEMALE off springs to be
psychological independent. What have you got? You've got the N-WORD WOMAN OUT
FRONT AND THE N-WORD MAN BEHIND AND SCARED. This is a perfect situation of sound
sleep and economic. Before the breaking process, we had to be alertly on guard
at all times. Now we can sleep soundly, for out of frozen fear his woman stands
guard for us. He cannot get past her early slave molding process. He is a good
tool, now ready to be tied to the horse at a tender age. By the time a n-word
boy reaches the age of sixteen, he is soundly broken in and ready for a long
life of sound and efficient work and the reproduction of a unit of good labor
force. Continually through the breaking of uncivilized savage n-word, by
throwing the n-word female savage into a frozen psychological state of
independence, by killing of the protective male image, and by creating a
submissive dependent mind of the n-word male slave, we have created an orbiting
cycle that turns on its own axis forever, unless a phenomenon occurs and re
shifts the position of the male and female slaves. We show what we mean by
example. Take the case of the two economic slave units and examine them close
THE NEGRO MARRIAGE
UNIT
We breed two n-word males with two n-word females. Then we take the n-word male away from them and keep them moving and working. Say one n-word female bears a n-word female and the other bears a n-word male. Both n-word females being without influence of the n-word male image, frozen with a independent psychology, will raise their offspring into reverse positions. The one with the female offspring will teach her to be like herself, independent and negotiable (we negotiate with her, through her, by her, negotiates her at will). The one with the n-word male offspring, she being frozen subconscious fear for his life, will raise him to be mentally dependent and weak, but physically strong, in other words, body over mind. Now in a few years when these two offspring's become fertile for early reproduction we will mate and breed them and continue the cycle. That is good, sound, and long range comprehensive planning.
WARNING: POSSIBLE INTERLOPING NEGATIVES
Earlier we talked about the non economic good of the horse and the n-word in
their wild or natural state; we talked out the principle of breaking and tying
them together for orderly production. Furthermore, we talked about paying
particular attention to the female savage and her offspring for orderly future
planning, then more recently we stated that, by reversing the positions of the
male and female savages, we created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis
forever unless a phenomenon occurred and resift and positions of the male and
female savages. Our experts warned us about the possibility of this phenomenon
occurring, for they say that the mind has a strong drive to correct and
re-correct itself over a period of time if I can touch some substantial original
historical base, and they advised us that the best way to deal with the
phenomenon is to shave off the brute's mental history and create a multiplicity
of phenomena of illusions, so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit,
something similar to floating balls in a vacuum. This creation of multiplicity
of phenomena of illusions entails the principle of crossbreeding the n-word and
the horse as we stated above, the purpose of which is to create a diversified
division of labor thereby creating different levels of labor and different
values of illusion at each connecting level of labor. The results of which is
the severance of the points of original beginnings for each sphere illusion.
Since we feel that the subject matter may get more complicated as we proceed in
laying down our economic plan concerning the purpose, reason and effect of
crossbreeding horses and n-word, we shall lay down the following definition
terms for future generations. Orbiting cycle means a thing turning in a given
path. Axis means upon which or around which a body turns. Phenomenon means
something beyond ordinary conception and inspires awe and wonder. Multiplicity
means a great number. Means a globe. Cross breeding a horse means taking a horse
and breeding it with an ass and you get a dumb backward ass long headed mule
that is not reproductive nor productive by itself. Crossbreeding n-words mean
taking so many drops of good white blood and putting them into as many n-word
women as possible, varying the drops by the various tone that you want, and then
letting them breed with each other until another circle of color appears as you
desire. What this means is this; Put the n-words and the horse in a breeding
pot, mix some assess and some good white blood and what do you get? You got a
multiplicity of colors of ass backward, unusual n-words, running, tied to a
backward ass long headed mules, the one productive of itself, the other sterile.
(The one constant, the other dying, we keep the n-word constant for we may
replace the mules for another tool) both mule and n-word tied to each other,
neither knowing where the other came from and neither productive for itself, nor
without each other.
CONTROLLED LANGUAGE
Crossbreeding completed, for further severance from their original beginning,
WE
MUST COMPLETELY ANNIHILATE THE MOTHER TONGUE of
both the new n-word and the new mule and institute a new language that involves
the new life's work of both. You know language is a peculiar institution. It
leads to the heart of a people. The more a foreigner knows about the language of
another country the more he is able to move through all levels of that society.
Therefore, if the foreigner is an enemy of the country, to the extent that he
knows the body of the language, to that extent is the country vulnerable to
attack or invasion of a foreign culture. For example, if you take a slave, if
you teach him all about your language, he will know all your secrets, and he is
then no more a slave, for you can't fool him any longer, and
BEING A FOOL IS ONE OF THE BASIC INGREDIENTS OF AN INCIDENTS TO THE MAINTENANCE
OF THE SLAVERY SYSTEM. For example, if you told a slave that he must
perform in getting out "our crops" and he knows the language well, he
would know that "our crops" didn't mean "our crops" and the
slavery system would break down, for he would relate on the basis of what
"our crops" really meant. So you have to be careful in setting up the
new language for the slaves would soon be in your house, talking to you as
"man to man" and that is death to our economic system. In addition,
the definitions of words or terms are only a minute part of the process. Values
are created and transported by communication through the body of the language. A
total society has many interconnected value system. All the values in the
society have bridges of language to connect them for orderly working in the
society. But for these language bridges, these many value systems would sharply
clash and cause internal strife or civil war, the degree of the conflict being
determined by the magnitude of the issues or relative opposing strength in
whatever form. For example, if you put a slave in a hog pen and train him to
live there and incorporate in him to value it as a way of life completely, the
biggest problem you would have out of him is that he would worry you about
provisions to keep the hog pen clean, or the same hog pen and make a slip and
incorporate something in his language where by he comes to value a house more
than he does his hog pen, you got a problem. He will soon be in your house.
(Additional Note: = "Henty Berry, speaking in the Virginia House of
Delegates in 1832, described the situation as it existed in many parts of the
South at this time: "We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by
which light may enter their (the slaves) minds. If we could extinguish the
capacity to see the light, our work would be complete; they would then be on a
level with the beasts of the field and we should be safe. I am not certain that
we would not do it, if we could find out the process and that on the plea of
necessity." From Brown America, The story of a
New Race by Edwin R. Embree. 1931 The Viking Press.
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