A journalist appeals to ethos by using statistics
explaining the definition of an unfamiliar word
providing background information about a situation,
using an anonymous source,

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.

Ialways thought that he thought it wasn’t fair because he thinks that people should be able to experience things and think outside of the box, or see color and add brightness and happiness to their lives but idk.