According to negroes often expressed their faith through hymns, or spiritual songs. _Another part of African religion that connects to this story is the art of music. Even though they are from two very different origins, these two religions are rather similar.
Like Toby from “The People Could Fly,” Jesus saved innocents from terrible fates with miracles. Along with that, Toby can be compared to Jesus, the son of God. In Christianity, the people who resisted sin and ordained the word of God were accepted into the gates of Heaven, the perfect paradise. Flying away from the plantation is like going to Heaven. _Even though “The People Could Fly” is based on African beliefs and myths, it is very similar to the popular religion Christianity. Soaring away to happiness was the life symbolism which appears in the end of literature in the romantic mode. As the Overseer was about to kill Toby, he used his magic to fly away along with every slave in the plantation. Later, he helped many others fly away from the torture. “Go, as you know how to go!” he exclaimed, and after Toby chanted some magic words, she flew away from the white Overseer with her beloved baby in her arms. Toby helped her to escape from this evil man’s clutches by instructing her to fly again. Sarah, a mother who once possessed the gift of flight, was living her worst nightmare when the Overseer whipped her infant because it was crying. They are forced to live a cruel life where all hope for their race is dead. However, when they are taken in to slavery, they are stripped of their freedom, and therefore, their wings. The wise and pure knew magic, and had wings like a blackbird's which would enable them to fly. _In this romantic short story, a wise old man from Africa along with many other of his African comrades are taken from their homeland to be slaves in America. Even though Virginia Hamilton’s story “The People Could Fly” is a tale of African folklore, it has a lot of spiritual meaning not only to blacks, but to all races as well. The slaves thought that flying was a sacred gift, and the idea soon worked its way into their religion.
_Have you ever dreamt of flying? In the short African fable “The People Could Fly” by Virginia Hamilton, the people with the purest souls really could fly.
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