Old traditional folk or religious song that is important to you. What's an old traditional folk or religious song that you remember from your early childhood? Why you have chosen this song? What it represents in your life? What were some of the values that align with who you are becoming?

The answer is "he was bad enough in all conscience, but the devil himself could not temp him to turn slave-trader. satirical is a synonym for sarcastic. so when the author says that tom walker could not be tempted by the devil he does not literally mean "the devil" but he means that he is too morally upright to become a slave-trader.