Myth: The Willie Lynch Letter is Real

The Black Myths Podcast

We discuss the infamous Willie Lynch Letter - a fictitious speech given to a group of plantation owners by a mythological slave master named Willie Lynch proclaiming his secret methods on how to control the slave population. We interview Dr. Rasul Mowatt, a professor at Indiana University.

Rasul A. Mowatt is a Professor in the Departments of American Studies & Geography within the College of Arts + Sciences. Main research areas are: the Racial Geographies of Public Space, Violence and the Geographies of Threat, and the Theory of the Leisure Class and the Sociology of Leisure. These are influenced by backgrounds in social justice, cultural studies, leisure behavior, and critical pedagogy. Published work has been on analyzing lynchings as violent forms of leisure.