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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 ).
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book is a 2004 picture book by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.It is a reissue, by the Dillons, of Hamilton's title story of her 1985 book The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales and is about a group of African-American slaves who call upon old magic to escape their oppression by flying away.
The name of the exhibition, Before Yesterday We Could Fly, is from the 19th-century legend of the flying Africans who were able to resist enslavement by flying home. [2] Specifically, it is based on the story as told by Virginia Hamilton in her book The People Could Fly. [9]
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The legend itself is included as the title story of Virginia Hamilton's 1986 collection The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, and in the 2004 standalone reissue The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, with enhanced illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. Before Yesterday We Could Fly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, Virginia Hamilton (Author), Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon Ph.D. (Illustrator), Knopf Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (January 4, 1993), ISBN 978-0679843368. In The Time of the Drums, Kim Siegelson (author), Brian Pinkney (Illustrator); Lee and Lowe Books ISBN 978-1620143094