Takaki Chapter 3 "giddy multitude"

Thesis: In the English mind, the color black was freighted with an array of negative images: “deeply stained with dirt, foul, dark or deadly, and wicked.” The main idea of this chapter is that right from the get go the whites saw blacks as different and believed them to be the “Devil’s incarnate.” The English already were making judgment on the African people because of their skin color. I mean it is pretty harsh to say that someone has the Devil in them. Also this chapter talks about the slavery.
In the beginning of this chapter Takaki explains how from first sight of the blacks the English profiled them and made judgment. They believed that the color black was evil and it must have been created by the Devil. The English said that the black’s skin looked like it had been scorched by the sun and they called them cannibals. Then he talks about slavery of the Irish and African’s. Sometimes families or anybody for that matter could be taken from their beds in the middle of the night and put onto a ship. With everyone aboard it set sail for America. When they arrived they would be sold and put to work on plantations. They would be forced to work all day no matter what conditions and then achy, tired, and hungry they would return to the huts. Many would try to escape, but if you were caught you would pay the price by lashes or some other sort of pain. Takaki explains how there was even racism in amongst the slaves. If a black person and a white person were caught for the same thing the black person would suffer a more sever punishment. For example two white men and a black man were caught for running away. They all received lashes and the white men were forced to spend one for additional year with their master, but for the black man he had to serve his master for the rest of his life. He also states how slavery wasn’t invented in New England, but it documented to be used in the West Indies. However, when Virginia started to boom they produced a lot of tobacco and needed help raising crops. They use to consider prisoners of war as slaves. But soon they found that they could use these color people for work and property. Even though there is all this talk about slavery, it increased very slowly. But soon it made its dent in America. They said there were as many slaves as slave buyers. This chapter also explains the “giddy multitude” that was formed by the whites that felt they were duped into coming to America. In Virginia A man named Isaac Friend led a conspiracy consisting of forty servants. This sort of incident also happened three years latter in Berkeley Virginia. Then towards the end it talks about Thomas Jefferson and his ideas on how to avoid social conflicts.
I felt that this selection was interesting but I did not see how someone could say that kind of stuff about someone else just because of their opinion. I mean like I said earlier that is really low to say someone was created by the devil and is a cannibal just because of skin color. I mean I guess times, such as religion had a lot to do with it, but I just don’t get it. Also I found it very interesting about how even between the black and white slaves the black slaves were treated worse. I didn’t know that and it didn’t really surprise me because of what I have read about the English behavior prior to this chapter.
Why aren’t the white slaves talked about as much as the black slaves?
Why did black slave become the primary workforce in America?