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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.
Peter Singer
Born: July 6, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne.
Known for:
- Animal Liberation (1975)
- Practical Ethics (1979)
- The Life You Can Save (2009)
- The Most Good You Can Do (2015)
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