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Flying Africans are figures of African diaspora legend who escape enslavement by a magical passage back over the ocean. Most noted in Gullah culture, they also occur in wider African-American folklore, and in that of some Afro-Caribbean peoples. [1]
Moore and Little, in recounting their experience with Africans in flight, presumed the existence of a larger spiritual network among slaves that asserted its own notions of the body and its movement, including, among other things,
Noting the size of the plane, Bailey thought, “Our ancestors couldn’t move at all in those cramped boats they were in and when they got to the New World they wanted to go back to their home in Africa.
7 mar 2019 · Sophia Nahli Allison writes on her experimental documentary “Dreaming Gave Us Wings,” which explores the myth of enslaved Africans who could fly home.
12 wrz 2022 · Found across Black North American and Caribbean cultures, tales of Flying Africans functioned as a form of relief for Black people held in bondage. These stories gave enslaved people something precious to believe in, both in this life and the hereafter. Where Did the Flying African Legend Come From?
This article presents a new interpretation of the famous folktale about enslaved Africans flying home, including the legend that only those who refrained from eating salt could fly back to...
Lorna McDaniel, THE FLYING AFRICANS: EXTENT AND STRENGTH OF THE MYTH IN THE AMERICAS, Nieuwe West-Indische Gids / New West Indian Guide, Vol. 64, No. 1/2 (1990), pp. 28-40 ... The People could fly. New York, Knopf. Hayes, Roland, 1948. My songs: Afro-American religious songs. Boston, Little, Brown. Hughes, Langston, and Arna Bontemps, 1958. The ...
