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The William Lynch speech, also known as the Willie Lynch letter, is an address purportedly delivered by a William Lynch (or Willie Lynch) to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony. [1] In recent years, it has been widely exposed as a hoax. [2] [3]
William Lynch (diplomat) (c. 1730–1785), British Member of Parliament for Canterbury and Minister to Sardinia; William Lynch (Lynch law) (1742–1820), claimed to be the basic cause of the "lynch law" term; William Lynch (Maryland politician) (1788–1857), American politician from Maryland; William A. Lynch (1844–1907), Ohio lawyer and ...
White lynchings of black people also occurred in the Midwestern United States and the Border States, especially during the 20th-century Great Migration of black people out of the Southern United States. The purpose for many of the lynchings was to enforce white supremacy and intimidate black people through racial terrorism. [3]
An enslaver by the name of Willie Lynch was said to have allegedly written a pamphlet that widely circulated instructing enslavers on how to use brutality to control enslaved people. "The Willie ...
Oct. 7—For more than a century, the mummified remains of an unidentified man lay within a Reading funeral home. The body, that of a man who died in the Berks County jail in 1895, took on a life ...
This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the defeat of the ...
Willie Geist and Jane Lynch on April 17, 2022. (Nathan Congleton / TODAY) Cheyne will, of course, be among the swarm of fans in the audience on April 24 when “Funny Girl,” which is currently ...
Yet, black people from across this nation who have never met will know these same stories. That said, I must question the accuracy of the above statement that the Willie Lynch letter is an internet hoax. The knowledge of this letter has been in existance amongst black people for over a hundred years.