Mama Day | Characters
Though she never appears on the page and though her descendants do not even know her name, Sapphira Wade is a pervasive presence. Infantilized in her bill of sale with the label "mischievous," Sapphira Wade emerges as a strong, resistant, and powerful woman, someone who insisted on determining her own fate, a quality passed on to her descendants.
The characters who most obviously inherited her determination and wisdom are Miranda and Abigail, who at eighty-three and eighty are cantankerous and bawdy in their humor as well as possessive of Cocoa, their "Baby Girl." They frequently...
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