Columbia Basin College
Secondary Sources
Department of History
Prof. Herbert
Aiden DeVere
830229141
HIST 146
10/14/20
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The two articles presented are peeks into what slave life was back and what people were
doing in it. The article “The Plantation as Civilizing Factor” by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips is a stark
contrast of " ‘Cuffy,’ ‘Fancy Maids,’ and ‘One-Eyed Men’: Rape, Commodification, and the
Domestic Slave Trade in the United States” an article by Edward Babtist. Phillip’s view of slaves
is completely biased, the way he justifies slavery and how he refers to blacks as “savage negros”.
(Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. The Plantation as a Civilizing Factor.) Phillips is a historian from the
south and in his writings it is common that he does not properly address the true atrocities of the
south. His love for where he is from gets in the way of his academic writings. There is obviously
some racism written in this text and it doesn't help the fact that he completely ignores the agony
of the slaves. They do not seem real when he writes about them. On the other hand, Baptist
paints a dark grim picture of what life was like for women slaves at the time. (Baptist, Edward E.
"Cuffy," "Fancy Maids," and "One-Eyed Men": Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave
Trade in the United States.) He does have another form of extreme bias but, unlike Baptist, he
does not choose to leave stones unturned. Baptist tells us very blainenty about just how abused
the slaves' lives were. Sparing us no detail, he gives us examples of how the slave owners of the
time felt about those who they made powerless to them. Baptist is a modern day historian and
does not commonly feel the need to skim over facts in his writing. 1 [Show Less]