The White Image in the Black Mind African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As gods, monsters, or another race entirely? Did nineteenth-century black Americans ever come to regard white Americans as innately superior? If not, why not? Here, Mia Bay provides compelling answers by tracing African-American perceptions of whites over a period that saw slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and urban migration.