Margins of Society

Huppert brings light to an interesting aspect of society in the time period, that the outcasts and stigmatized members of society do not rise up against those that cast them out. That the rebellions of the period are often led by those that have a stake in society such as middle class shop owners or other merchants.

The "margins of society", as Huppert referred to them, were barely hanging on and too busy trying to survive to worry about social goings-on in the greater scheme of things. He noted that they would be blamed for problems in the society but that they were often being taken advantage of themselves. The baby transporter is a development of grotesque injustice in the world that the poor lived in. There was also the distinction of the rightful poor and not. The interesting thing was middle class members of society often took advantage of the poor, with some working in human trafficking and slave trade of the poor.