THE LYNCH LETTER

According to author Anthony Browder, a document entitiled "Let's Make A Slave" was brought to the public's attention by attorney Robert L. Brock.  Brock discovered the document while researching documents in the basement of a courthouse in the South.  "Let's Make A Slave" is a study of the physical and psychological process called "seasoning" which was designed to break the spirit of newly arrived Africans and prepare them for a lifetime of servitude. 

The psychological Maafa were designed to endure for hundreds of years.  In 1712, plantation owners from the state of Virginia invited a European plantation owner from Barbados, named William Lynch, to share with them his techniques for controlling enslaved Africans. 

Many of the "methods" devised by William Lynch continue to influence the behavior of millions of Africans througout the urban plantations of America.

SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR AFRICANS IN AMERICA
by author Anthony Browder

The Lynch Letter