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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
Deborah Cameron

Born: November 10, 1958 (age 66)
Bio: Deborah Cameron is a feminist linguist, who currently holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, University of Oxford.
Known for:
- The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007)
- Verbal hygiene (1995)
- Working with spoken discourse (2001)
- Language and Sexuality (2003)
- Feminism and linguistic theory (1985)