James Stout

So this is a kid whose money and whose schooling and stuff is paid for by slave money, and he's an abolitionist by now.

He fundamentally objects to the slave trade, right?

And so when he's representing the underwriters in this case, he's probably pissing off his family.

So it's just very interesting to me that this is a kid from slave money who's like, nah, this is bad.

Nah, bro.

If anyone ever says people who grew up in that culture couldn't know it was wrong.

Yeah, a lot of them did.

Here's a dude.

Here's a dude.

I don't know that if he was like a committed full-on abolitionist because a lot of these guys were just anti the slave trade and thought that that was like the middle passage and stuff with the triangle trade was the worst part of it.

But that's still a better than not being against that, right?

It's a step.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's an unusual position still and a brave one to assert that time.

Right, right.

Especially when your whole family are slave traders.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So from the jump, there are some uncomfortable tensions behind the scenes in this case.