“Cuffy,” “Fancy Maids,” and “One-Eyed Men”: Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States

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Journal Article “Cuffy,” “Fancy Maids,” and “One-Eyed Men”: Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States Get access Edward E. Baptist Edward E. Baptist Edward E. Baptist is one of the two Charlton W. Tebeau assistant professors in the Department of History at the University of Miami. His published articles include “Accidental Ethnography in an Antebellum Southern Newspaper: Snell's Homecoming Festival,” which appeared in the Journal of American History in March 1998. Baptist received his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked with Drew Gilpin Faust. In April 2002, the University of North Carolina Press will publish his first book, Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War. He is currently working on a study of the forced migration of enslaved African Americans to the plantation frontiers of the United States after 1787. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 106, Issue 5, December 2001, Pages 1619–1650, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/106.5.1619 Published: 01 December 2001