The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
Written by Willie Lynch
Narrated by Ronald Eastwood
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making. It describes the rationale and the results of Anglo Saxon's ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. The infamous Willie Lynch letter gives both African and Caucasian students and teachers some insight, concerning the brutal and inhumane psychology behind the African slave trade. The materialistic viewpoint of Southern plantation owners that slavery was a business and the victims of chattel slavery were merely pawns in an economic game of debauchery, crossbreeding, interracial rape and mental conditioning of a negroid race, they considered subhuman.
Equally important is the international nature of the European economic, political and cultural climate that influenced the slave trade. Within the time scale of African History, it was a relatively short period, a mere one and a half centuries from the most intensive phase of the Atlantic slave trade to the advent of European administration and dominance. Long before that the Slave Coast had been chartered by the Portuguese and the people off the area west of Benin, between the Volta River and Lagos, European traders traced a cultural history which linked them with the earliest Yoruba settlements to the north and eastern borders of Africa.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was hard to get through. I definitely needed to hear it though. Time to get my ppl to unlearn this bs now.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Definitely a great listen. BE PREPARED for strong language used.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It’s hard listen to without stirring up emotions, personally because I am a black women it was hard to heard and then make direct connections to my life now but definitely makes you think about where their mindset was at this time. If anyone has Hulu watch “the underground” (AMAZING SHOW, I’m pissed off that it was canceled) but either way worth the 2 seasons, in the show it demonstrate these “steps” of breaking down the slaves, each character deals with it differently. They even directly quote the letter when it comes to the comparison to breaking a horse. Main point Decent read/listen and great show. Both worth your time.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a hard one to get through but when listening to it and seeing today, it's sad to say that it indeed lasted hundreds of years. We need to break the mindset that was instilled in us. It also lets me know that in the beginning we did try to fight against them, not like what's taught in schools today
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It answer a lot of questions, and it’s still happening.