The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton
Author:Virginia Hamilton [Hamilton, Virginia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-553-50781-2
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-01-06T05:00:00+00:00
He raised his arms, holding them out to her. “Kum…yali, kum buba tambe,” and more magic words, said so quickly, they sounded like whispers and sighs.
The young woman lifted one foot on the air. Then the other. She flew clumsily at first, with the child now held tightly in her arms. Then she felt the magic, the African mystery. Say she rose just as free as a bird. As light as a feather.
The Overseer rode after her, hollerin. Sarah flew over the fences. She flew over the woods. Tall trees could not snag her. Nor could the Overseer. She flew like an eagle now, until she was gone from sight. No one dared speak about it. Couldn’t believe it. But it was, because they that was there saw that it was.
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