Saved Selections are Black Not White

I was working on an image and made one selection, which I then saved as an alpha channel. It saved properly with the selection area white and the rest of the image black. I made another selection and saved it as an alpha channel, but the selected area was black, with the rest of the image white - which of course is the reverse of what it should be.
I tried some other images, made selections with various tools and each time I saved them as an alpha channel the selected area is black with the rest of the image white.
Why is this happening?
Thanks,
Greg

Thank you for your responses. I am able to invert the selection once it is made, but my query is to why my selection area initially was white (as it should be) and then suddenly all my subsequent selections are black.
I can invert them, as you point out, but isn't the selected area supposed to be white when I first make the selection, rather than having to invert the selection afterwards?

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