Gentlemen
I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you the Gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest methods for control of slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south of the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish, I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cords of wood as crosses for standing human bodies along its old highway in great numbers, you are here using the tree and rope on occasion.
I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are not only losing valuable stock by hanging, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the field too long for maximum profit, and you suffer occasional fires. Your animals are killed, Gentlemen you know what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate, I am here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them.
In my bag here, I have a foolproof method for controlling your Nigger slaves. I guarantee everyone of you that if installed correctly, it will control the slaves for at least 300 years. My methods are simple and members of your family of overseer can use it. I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves; and I take these differences and make them bigger. I use fear, distrust, and envy for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of differences, think about them. On top of my list is "Age" but it is there only because it starts with an "a". The second is color or shade. There is intelligence, size, sex, size of plantation, status of plantation, attitude of owner, whether the slave lives in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North or South, have fine or coarse hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action but before that I shall assure you that distrust is stronger than trust and envy is stronger than adulation, respect or admiration.
The nigger slave after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self refueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Don't forget that you must pitch the old nigger slave vs the young nigger slave, and the young nigger slave against the old nigger slave. You must use the light skin slaves vs the dark skin slaves and the dark skin slaves vs the the light skin slaves. You must also have your white servants and overseers distrust all niggers but it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us. They must Love, Respect, and Trust only us only.
Gentlemen, these kits are our keys to control, use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity. My plan is guaranteed, and the good thing about this plan is that if used intensely for one year, the slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful.
Thank you Gentlemen
Willie Lynch
