Unnamed Enslaved Messenger in New Orleans

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2408
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Unnamed Enslaved Messenger in New Orleans
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Unnamed Enslaved Messenger in New Orleans
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
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Absalom!'s narrative speculates - hyperbolically - about the existence of a "special" slave in the lawyer's office, whose sole job is to carry faked reports about Sutpen's whereabouts to Bon's mother (244).