"An Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man"

William Apes, in his essay "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man," argues that to profess Christianity and still making differences between races is not what God wanted to tell us. In his essay, Apes asks several questions such as why, if God loves white people so much, did he create fifteen colored people for every white one. He says that neither Jesus nor his disciples were white skinned. He also questions the white person's right to control Native Americans. Instead he turns the attention to the reservations in the different states of New England, which he calls with a few exeptions "the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world--a complete place of prodigality and prostitution."