LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Tom should employ in the black market and sell guns.
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Tom should employ in the black market and sell currency.
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Tom should employ in the black traffic and sell slaves.
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Tom should employ in the black traffic and sell coal.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tom Walker agrees to Old Scratch’s deal, as he considered his abusive wife’s death a good thing. Because he can only use the treasure in Old Scratch’s service, Tom agrees to become a usurer (today commonly called a loan shark), after refusing to become a slave trader.
Detailed explanation-2: -Years later, the devil meets Tom Walker, a miserly man married to a foul-tempered and even more miserly wife. The couple conspires to cheat each other until the devil offers Tom a bargain: he’ll give Tom the Pirate Kidd treasure on one condition-that Tom give him his soul.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tom tells his wife about the deal that Old Scratch offered. The wife wants Tom to take the deal, but he refuses. They argue, and the wife decides she will make the deal. She takes their silver “and every portable article of value” in her apron and is never heard from again.
Detailed explanation-4: -How does Tom react to the devil and his offer? He is skeptical; doesn’t jump on it right away. He wants time to think.
Detailed explanation-5: -Note that Tom refuses to take his riches from the devil in the form of becoming a slave trader (p. 235).