“O, but nobody thinks anything of these traders! They are universally despised, — never received into any decent society.” But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he? Are you educated and he ignorant, you high and he low, you refined and he coarse, you talented and he simple? In the day of
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Bravo. I know many individuals that read this book in the tme of it's intriducton tonthw world were cut by these words. The buyers and owners were just as guilty as the traders. The same as someone that sold an illegl drug as the one that helped the drug enter the contry. All parties profited while the addict was stuck in the middle. There were no good slave owners, they were clients to a system of a great evil.
