What is the significance of the year 1823? What role does it play in the legend of Sapphira Wade? How has it crept into the popular speech of present-day Willow Springs?

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What Role does it play in the legend of Sapphira Wade?

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1823 is significance with Mama Day  in which she tells the story that 1823   is the year when Willow springs was created. The creation was as a result of Sapphira Wade persuading her master to give the island to his slaves.

What Role does it play in the legend of Sapphira Wade?

1823 is the year Sapphira Wade persuaded the master to give the island to the slaves, killed him and vanished in burst of flames.

How has it crept into the popular speech of the present-day Willow Springs?

The year she born him a thousand sons

1. What is the significance of the year 1823?

The date forms the basis for its power and existence.  It is also the year that Willow Springs created a community for descendants of slaves.

2. What role does it play in the legend of Sapphira Wade?

It symbolises the mythological presence of Sapphire Wade . The date was significant because the people of Willow Springs believed that it was when Sapphira Wade either killed or seduced Bascombe Wade, thus allowing her to take the deed to the island and start a land separate from any nation on the globe.

3. How has it crept into the popular speech of present-day Willow Springs?

1823 was the year that was most associated with Willow Springs and  without Willow spring cannot exist in a figurative or literal sense.

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