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Ronald Eastwood
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Willie Lynch
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making. It describes the rationale and the results of Anglo Saxon's ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. The infamous Willie Lynch letter gives both African and Caucasian students and teachers some insight, concerning the brutal and inhumane psychology behind the African slave trade. The materialistic viewpoint of Southern plantation owners that slavery was a business and the victims of chattel slavery were merely pawns in an economic game of debauchery, crossbreeding, interracial rape and mental conditioning of a negroid race, they considered subhuman.
Equally important is the international nature of the European economic, political and cultural climate that influenced the slave trade. Within the time scale of African History, it was a relatively short period, a mere one and a half centuries from the most intensive phase of the Atlantic slave trade to the advent of European administration and dominance. Long before that the Slave Coast had been chartered by the Portuguese and the people off the area west of Benin, between the Volta River and Lagos, European traders traced a cultural history which linked them with the earliest Yoruba settlements to the north and eastern borders of Africa.
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My fiancé brought me tea and scrambled eggs in bed that morning, and we snuggled together, talking about buying our rings, and about our perfect wedding next year. Then we headed into town. He held my hand and gazed at the ring I liked best, a smile spreading slowly over his face. Then a glass of bubbly to celebrate. I felt flushed, excited and ready for the rest of my life with the man I loved. We race to get on the train home. It screams to a halt and I run towards its open doors. Made it. I think he’s right behind me — but when I turn around, he’s gone.
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Disappointing plot
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The Answer Is No
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Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
- By joey1603 on 12-01-24
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Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.
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When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.
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- Willis J. McDonald
- 09-10-19
Hard to swallow Part Of Black History
Very informative and understandable material. I recommend everyone interested in the learning the true History of America to read
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- Fabrina
- 12-09-22
Knowledge for your mind
I like it. It opening my eyes a lot. How they tried to break black people.
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- well day
- 12-13-24
very informative
very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very informative so completely informed if he was so informative
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- Conscientious Iceman🧊
- 11-17-18
Black Lives Matter to Us
A must-read for the millennials, know what happened behind you to understand what's happening now.
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- JayBay
- 03-18-20
Racism explained in 30mins.
A must read to understand why “white supremacy “ exists, and why African Americans are and act they way they do.
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- Chali
- 06-07-16
WoW how could this be possible from one human being to another
Universe forgive me for how am I feel inside. Forgive them for there ignorance wow
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-17-19
very educational a must read.
good learning tool. I would recommend this to everyone no matter what your culture or race is.
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- R.A. Johnson
- 07-02-20
True History of America and How It Came To Be
Listening to this made me want to throw up, made my heart ache and pissed me off! How hateful and evil the white man was and some still are to this day. The awful truth of America must be told in all of the history books! Not to mention that they had the gaul to use the bible! Christ is Love...what you do to the least of my brothers you do unto me.
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- CATINA Walker
- 10-26-24
Eye opening g
This letter is exactly what’s happening to the Black person today. A lesson of why our thinking as black people is the way it is today. We are still to this day being broken this way and it’s called “ Civil Rights”
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- Demetrius
- 12-30-15
good read
I feel everyone of color should read this. It will enlighten you on the power of controlling one's mind.
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