American Black Folktales
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EnglishVoice Age
Senior (55+)Accents
African (General) North American (General)Transcript
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they say that the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa some of the people knew magic and they would walk up on the air like climbing up on the gate. And they flew like blackbirds over the fields, black shiny wings flapping against the blue Up there. Then many of the people were captured for slavery. The ones that could fly, shed their wings. They couldn't take their wings across the water on the slave ships. Too crowded, don't you know?