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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
AuthorVirginia Hamilton
IllustratorLeo and Diane Dillon
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectChildren's literature, Slavery in the United States, Folklore
Published1985
PublisherKnopf, Distributed by Random House
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages178
ISBN9780394869254
OCLC975841967

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales is a 1985 collection of twenty-four folktales retold by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. They encompass animal tales (including tricksters), fairy tales, supernatural tales, and tales of the enslaved Africans (including slave narratives).

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