“The People Could Fly” by Virginia Hamilton is a folktale that originated among people held captive as slaves. A long time ago in Africa, there were people who could fly, but they were taken as slaves to work on a plantation to work to suffer, to survive. They were taken on a boat with many others like them and with those who could not fly because the boat was crowded and there was only misery they had lost their wings. After a while of working in the fields, hard labor and being out in the sun for too long you could not tell the difference between those who could fly and those who were there before them. An old man named Toby was one of those who could fly and his daughter, Sarah who had worked in the fields for a long time had lost her
