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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.
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Born: August 8, 1922
Died: December 30, 2019 (aged 97)
Bio: Gertrude Himmelfarb, also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian. She was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography.
Known for:
- The de-moralization of society (1995)
- The moral imagination (2006)
- The new history and the old (1987)
- On Looking Into the Abyss (1994)