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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
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Author Virginia Hamilton
Illustrator Leo and Diane Dillon
Country United States
Language English
Subject Children's literature, Slavery in the United States, Folklore
Published 1985
Publisher Knopf
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages 178
ISBN 9780394869254
OCLC 975841967

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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