From Light to White: The Place and Race of Jesus in Antebellum America

The Confucian Strategy in African Americans’ Racial Equality Discourse

“…As Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey point out, America began to mass-produce and mass-distribute images of white Jesus in the early 19th century. Thus influenced, blacks born between the 1830s and the 1860s "routinely" accepted Christ as a white savior of the black race (Blum and Harvey 2012). However, many blacks resisted the whitening of Christ, the Georgian cleric E. K. Love being one conspicuous example.…”