Unnamed Undercover Revenue Agent

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Unnamed Undercover Revenue Agent
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Unnamed Undercover Revenue Agent
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Indeterminable
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Administrative
Specific Job: 
Undercover Detective
Biography: 

One of the hypothetical characters in this novel. This "undercover man" does not actually appear in Jefferson, but he is fairly vividly conjured up in the imagination of "the town," which is "just waiting" for him to arrest Brown for selling moonshine whiskey (46). At the time the novel takes place, Prohibition made it illegal to sell alcohol anywhere in the U.S. But Yoknapatawpha is 'dry' throughout its imaginative history, meaning that it was always illegal to sell alcohol there. The federal agents who enforced this law were colloquially called 'revenuers.'

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Individual
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