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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 speech; S. 1970 State of the Union Address This page was last edited on 24 August 2020, at 03:43 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Since the 1970s, and especially since the 1990s, there has been a false etymology claiming that the word lynching comes from a fictitious William Lynch speech that was given by an especially brutal slaveholder to other slaveholders to explain how to control their slaves. Although a real person named William Lynch might have been the origin of ...
A letter written for William Wallace in 1300 has been displayed in public for the first time in six years for St Andrew’s Day. More than 250 people turned up to General Register House in ...
The post ‘Will He Lynch?’ and the making of the white man appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: Perhaps the first viral digital hoax, we celebrate white Juneteenth with a long-overdue response ...
Meanwhile, you re-worded the introduction to say that William Lynch gave the speech, and we've yet to see any source that verifies this (for one thing, the attributed Lynch was born 30 years after the speech). I have adjusted the inrtroduction and removed "disputed" (there are better ways to flag problems, by the way: see WP:TMAIN).
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