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 on 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 highways in
great numbers you are here using the tree and the rope on
occassion.
I caught a whiff of a dead slave hanging from a
tree a couple of miles back. You are not only losing
valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves
are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the
fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional
fires, your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what
your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here
to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a
method of solving them. In my bag here, I have a fool proof
method for controlling your Black slaves. I guarantee
everyone of you that if installed correctly it will control
the slaves for at least 300 years. My method is simple. Any
member of your family or your 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, and think about them. On
top of my list is "Age", the second is
"Color" or shade, there is intelligence, size,
sex, size of plantations, status on plantation, attitude of
owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill,
East, West, North, South, have fine hair 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 adulation; respect
or admiration.
The Black slave after receiving this indoctrination shall
carry on and will become self re-fueling and self-generating
for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.
Don't forget you must pitch the old Black vs. the young
Black male, and the young Black male against the old Black
male. You must use the dark skin slave vs. the light skin
slaves and the light skin slaves vs. the dark skin slaves.
You must use the female vs. the male, and the male vs. the
female. You must also have your White servants and overseers
distrust all Blacks, but it is necessary that your slaves
trust and depend on us. They must love, respect, and trust
only us.
Gentlemen, these Kits are your Keys to control. Use them.
Have your wives and children use them, never miss
opportunity. If used intensely for one year, the slaves
themselves will remain perpetually distrustful. Thank you,
gentlemen. |