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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.
Naomi Mitchison
Born: November 1, 1897
Died: January 11, 1999 (aged 101)
Bio: Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison was a Scottish novelist and poet.
Known for:
- Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962)
- The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1930)
- Solution three (1975)
- Travel light (1952)
- The fourth pig (1936)