![]() ![]() For Historical and Cultural significance of folktales, a resounding 5 stars, hence, the settling on 4. ’The People Could Fly – American Black Folktales’, told by Virginia Hamilton, is an illustrated collection of 24 folktales representing the foundational material of a storytelling tradition belonging to the Africans who were bought to America against their will, forcibly suppressed by their white slaveowners and condemned to a life of slavery.įor personal enjoyment and takeaway, I give this 3 stars. But no amount of hard labour and suffering could suppress their powers of imagination”. As slaves, they were forced to live without citizenship, without rights, as property – like horses and cows – belonging to someone else. ![]() ![]() ”It is amazing that the former Africans could ever smile and laugh, let alone make up riddles and songs and jokes and tell tales. ![]()
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