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Led by the Southern-born Ulrich Phillips, whose American Negro Slavery (1918) was the standard work in the field for decades, leading academic historians portrayed slavery as a benevolent, paternalistic institution that benefited blacks by civilizing them.
There is increasing recognition that the paternalistic, colonial attitude that pervaded “tropical medicine” in the past just will not do.
After years of paternalistic administration of the native peoples’ property, the government now gives them a free hand in running their own businesses, such as hotels and shopping centers financed from oil revenues in Alberta.
Confederate apologists, who wrote the first round of histories of the South, portrayed slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution (for more on this topic, see "") and painted the carpetbaggers as venal and corrupt interlopers.
A paternalistic editorial calls America's Latinos "a minority worth cultivating."