The “Giddy Multitude”

In the essay, “The Giddy Multitude”, written by Ronald Takaki, he talks about indentured servants, slaves and land less freemen, who were white and black. They were a discontented class who threatened the property class of Virginia in the 1600s. The indentured servants are people that have to work for their masters for a number of years; in return they would get a ticket to America. American’s racial definition hinged on keeping this class divided against itself through race in order to keep it u...