The Willie Lynch Letter: Uncovering the History of Slavery and Its Impact on African-Americans

Cleopatra Allain: Everyone should read this quick read at least once!!!!

United States on Dec 03, 2023

Georgia Harper: Interesting reading

United States on Dec 03, 2023

toni huggar: Couldn’t put it down. Should be taught in classrooms everywhere.

United States on Nov 06, 2023

Sammer: I heard about this book from a scholar friend. He did not warn me about the content, now should you - the title says it all. It was an honestly written book that pulls no punches. Direct, inflammatory in nature, and jaw dropping. This is the true story of how slaves were made. Fascinating, cringe inducing, powerful.

United States on Sep 11, 2023

Urokz: Haunting Account of Strength in God's Grace and Lucid Spirit Over The Physical Death Of The Generational Damned

Canada on Jul 09, 2023

Black Scorpio: If you are a person of color.. a descendant of slavery.. you NEED to read this book!

Canada on Jul 05, 2023

Jeff Thompson: Interessant.

Germany on Apr 08, 2022

rich: There seems to be some speculation as to whether Willie lynch was real, however having read the book myself, one can see some of the effects prevalent in contemporary society,for example colourism among black people; Willie lynch instructs slave owners to create dissension amongst the slaves using several variables one of which included skin complexion; the setting of Light skinned slaves against dark skinned slaves, which is the literal foundation and origin of colour- ism.

The letter further instructs that:
"you must also have your white servants and overseers distrust all blacks"

it is an undeniable fact that black people, especially black men, are frequently negatively stereotyped. In almost every setting one is looked upon with suspicion and stigmatised, be it in the workplace or wherever, just merely walking down the street causes anxiety to arises in passers by. Its pathetic.

where did this attitude towards the black man originate from? Well White supremacy has done a fantastic job of deluding generation after generation of white people; they created the stereotypes and then they have the audacity to expect a black man to just fall into place, as if...

United Kingdom on Mar 28, 2021

mamaof4boys: This book sears the soul. I am reading it aloud to my children and at various points find myself choked up by the raw emotion it evokes. It is unfathomable that black slaves were treated with such a degree of disdain and hatred because of white colonists love of the almighty dollar. That whites would literally rip the strongest black man they owned into two after tarring and feathering him, tie his appendages to two separately facing horses, and whip the horses until they ran in opposite directions should make us all weep.

It takes a great deal of grace not to feel revulsion when I look at whites after reading such accounts of what their ancestors did, especially in light of the racially charged climate we live in today, with the hateful rhetoric being spewed from the Oval Office on a daily basis. I know better than to allow my heart to close and isolate myself from engaging with those who don't look like me. I have friends who are white with good natures, but it seems there is always a point that just can’t be crossed because of a lack of understanding or maybe refusal to acknowledge this part of their history because it is entirely uncomfortable to confront the pain of...

United States on Apr 15, 2018

The Brixtonian: Willie Lynch, a British Slave owner travelled to America in 1712 to deliver a speech to other slave owners,
to teach them 'cast iron' methods on how to control their African slaves.

I was appalled to read how this odious man informed and encouraged his audience to enslave, humiliate or murder
any black man or woman who wouldn't comply. Furthermore, his method on breaking the male slave
by debasing him in front of a female slave was a truly disturbing read.

Sadly, people like Lynch have left a heartbreaking legacy that has divided people of colour to this day (Light skin - good, dark skin - bad).

I have read many books on the horrors of slavery, but this is the first time that I've read about a man who had
'rules' on how to control slaves, and then travel the globe to bragg about mastery and murder (remind you of anyone?).

I note that one reveiwer, thought this whole episode with Lynch never really took place, and started out as some sort
of joke ... some joke! I recommend that the reveiwer read about real heroics from the likes of Harriett Tubman,
Nat Turner & Toussaint L'Ouverture, instead of trying to defend the indefensible.

United Kingdom on Jul 14, 2012