All God's Children Had Wings: The Flying African in History, Literature, and Lore

This article investigates stories of human flight in the folklore of enslaved men and women throughout the plantation Americas, and especially along the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina where examples abound of Africans taking flight and returning to an African homeland, more than an oc...

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Main Author: Young, Jason R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2017]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 50-70
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B South Carolina / Georgia / Blacks / Slave / Story / Flies / Flight
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
KBQ North America
NBK Soteriology
TJ Modern history
ZB Sociology
ZD Psychology
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