However, when they are taken in to slavery, they are stripped of their freedom, and therefore, their wings. The wise and pure knew magic, and had wings like a blackbird's which would enable them to fly. _In this romantic short story, a wise old man from Africa along with many other of his African comrades are taken from their homeland to be slaves in America. Even though Virginia Hamilton’s story “The People Could Fly” is a tale of African folklore, it has a lot of spiritual meaning not only to blacks, but to all races as well. The slaves thought that flying was a sacred gift, and the idea soon worked its way into their religion.
_Have you ever dreamt of flying? In the short African fable “The People Could Fly” by Virginia Hamilton, the people with the purest souls really could fly.
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