giddy multitudes!!

Through out chapter three, The Giddy Multitudes, Zinn describes
the British points of view as they discovered Ethiopians and
Africans. For instance The English Caliban seemed to say they
were beastly, with out a god, law, or religion, and that their
color made them the “devils incarnate.” Later in 1608 Edward
Topsell even wrote a book on the associations between apes and
Africans. It also goes on to explain that in the early days
that the Virginia Colony was mostly white indentured servants.
Just like the Africans, many of the white indentured servants
came with involuntarily. Many were kidnapped as were the
Africans from their beds in their own homes. That’s when the
higher society began to notice the similarities and the
problems that could possibly arise. The white indentured
servants began to run away with the African slaves, and many
complaints were taken to the Virginia legislature. They feared
the black and white indentured slaves would bind together and
rebel. I also learned that Jefferson viewed that slavery should be abolished. But, the way he saw it was that once slavery is abolished that the ex-slaves should then be expatriated. He stated that blacks and whites could not coexist in nature because of the “real distinctions”
Through out this article the fact of did the Indians waste their land came up. However, who is to say what is a waste and what is not. Is it a waste not to have tractors to till the land and produce an over abundance of food. Or is it just respect for the land in which they live? I think that the Indians were leading a perfectly good life, and that maybe the new settlers should have taken some notes on appreciating their environment. Also, the setters had reasoning to say the “new” discovery of Africans were beasts and were burning with Gods fury is ridiculous. I was just shocked as I read this entire article on the accounts of what prestigious people such as Jefferson were saying in our history. Like Jefferson said, Like Giddy Multitude, and that is they have constantly threatened social order. Or instead of worrying about what they were doing to these people Jefferson was worried that whites would continue to face the danger of servile insurrection. In conclusion, why did it take so long for someone to stand up to societies ways and stand for what they believe in? Or why did the new settlers almost automatically think of slavery, and being dominant when they first discovered our new amazing continent?