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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]
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 ...
OPINION: Perhaps the first viral digital hoax, we celebrate white Juneteenth with a long-overdue response to the (fake) Willie Lynch Letter explaining the invention of whiteness. The post ‘Will ...
To indicate that somehow the Willie Lynch letter is inaccurate for indicating there was a division of house and field slaves is proposterous given that it is a known fact that there was a division of labor and individuals in this manner that still has repercussions today.
The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching.Lynching was used as a tool to repress African Americans. [1]
Charles Lynch's extralegal actions were legitimized by the Virginia General Assembly in 1782. [1] In 1811, Captain William Lynch claimed that the phrase "Lynch's Law", already famous, actually came from a 1780 compact signed by him and his neighbours in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to uphold their own brand of law independent of legal authority.
Meanwhile, the best Black Americans could do was the Willie Lynch letter – a speech by a fictional racist white man that was loosely based on real-life violence committed by real-life racists.
The Liberator (1831–1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison and, through 1839, by Isaac Knapp.Religious rather than political, it appealed to the moral conscience of its readers, urging them to demand immediate freeing of the slaves ("immediatism").