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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.
John Rawls

Born: February 21, 1921
Died: November 24, 2002 (aged 81)
Bio: John Bordley Rawls was an American moral and political philosopher. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University and the Fulbright Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford.
Known for:
- A Theory of Justice (1971)
- Political Liberalism (1993)
- The Law of Peoples (1993)
- Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2001)
- Lectures on the history of moral philosophy (2000)
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