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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.
Mercy Otis Warren
Born: September 14, 1728
Died: October 19, 1814 (aged 86)
Bio: Mercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. In the eighteenth century, topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men.
Known for:
- The Adulateur (1773)
- The Blockheads
- The Blockheads, and the Defeat
- The group. 1779 [!] (1775)