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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.
Thomas Robert Malthus
Born: February 13, 1766
Died: December 29, 1834 (aged 68)
Bio: The Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert.
Known for:
- An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
- Definitions in political economy (1827)
- On the Principle of Population
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