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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.
George W. E. Russell
Born: June 23, 1923
Died: July 27, 2009 (aged 86)
Bio: George Allen Russell was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist.
Known for:
- Collections and recollections (1898)
- Fifteen chapters of autobiography
- Prime ministers, and some others (1918)
- The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone (1891)
- Half-Lengths (1913)