“Giddy Multitude”

(from Ronald Takaki’s A Different Mirror)
- "In Virginia, they became an even greater threat to social order, forming what the planter elite fearfully called a "giddy multitude" — a discontented class of indentured servants, slaves, and landless freemen, both white and black…”
- If united, created a threat to the established power and economic structure of the time.
- Title of the chapter because of the fear and threat of miscegenation, but more importantly the danger of race war. There was a fear that whites would continue to face danger of servile insurrection.