Which excerpt fromThe People Could Fly reflects the historical fact that enslaved people were kidnapped and sent overseas? The folks were full of misery, then. Got sick with the up and down of the sea. So they forgot about flyin when they could no longer breathe the sweet scent of Africa.
One such who could was an old man, call him Toby. And standin tall, yet afraid, was a young woman who once had wings.
But Toby just laughed. Say he threw back his head and said, “Hee, hee! Don't you know who I am? Don't you know some of us in this field?”
Say the child grew hungry. That babe started up bawling too loud. Sarah couldn't stop to feed it.