Flying Africans
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title:
Flying Africans
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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. Though it is generally agreed that the legend reflects a longing for a reversal of the Atlantic slave trade, scholars differ on the extent to which this should be seen as supernatural belief or as allegory: of freedom, death, the afterlife, and even meta
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African diaspora legend
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Africans
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2023-11-12T17:42:58Z
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