{"product_id":"willie-lynch-letter-and-the-making-of-a-slave","title":"Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave","description":"\u003ch1\u003eWillie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave\u003c\/h1\u003eWillie Lynch\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bnpublishing.com\u003cbr\u003eApril 1 2009\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9789562916554\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9562916553\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eWillie Lynch Letter\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of the most controversial and provocative documents in the study of the African American experience. Purportedly delivered by a British slave owner on the banks of the James River, the speech outlines a horrific \"scientific\" method for breaking the human spirit and ensuring the perpetual enslavement of Black people through mental rather than physical chains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition provides a stark look at the tactics described in the letter-strategies designed to pit slave against slave based on age, color, gender, and status. By fostering distrust and division, the methods outlined were intended to create a \"self-refueling and self-generating\" system of subservience that would last for hundreds of years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnhanced with powerful, period-style illustrations that visually map the mechanics of systemic control.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391179128877,"sku":"21244","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_5e4b0f91-5927-4d34-9d3f-3e1e49116773.jpg?v=1787352261","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/willie-lynch-letter-and-the-making-of-a-slave","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}