![]() I failed to grasp the moral lessons presumably present in these stories, or the characteristics shared between the animals and the plantation residents that they were inspired by. The first is, essentially, tales of animal trickery and mischief. ![]() The stories are divided into 4 distinctly themed “Chapters”. 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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