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Colin Hawkins The visual I constructed was a graphic artwork inspired by one of the excerpts from, " The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales," by Virginia Hamilton. This artwork was specifically influenced by the excerpt of the same name, " The People Could Fly," which contains the myth of the Flying Africans. The myth flying Africans is a powerful African American folklore legend about how enslaved people, refusing to be reduced as product and longing for freedom, gained the ability of flight to fly over the waters back to Africa. This myth specifically originates from anecdotes of resisting such as Igbo Landing, where in 1803 in Dunbar Creek, Georgia, the enslaved Igbo people revolted, taking over the ship they were on and drowning their captors then themselves, refusing to be brutalized in America as slaves. Through this profound act of resistance, many oral folktales were formed that the Igbo people were able to sprout wings, able to fly back to Africa...
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