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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.
Geoffrey Elton

Born: August 17, 1921
Died: December 3, 1994 (aged 73)
Bio: Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British political and constitutional historian, specialising in the Tudor period. He taught at Clare College, Cambridge and was the Regius Professor of Modern History there from 1983 to 1988.
Known for:
- The Practice of History (1967)
- The Tudor revolution in government (1953)
- England Under the Tudors (1955)
- Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 (1963)
- Return to essentials (1991)