Which excerpt from The People Could Fly reflects the historical fact that plantation owners and overseers treated enslaved
people brutally?
When they saf close before the fire in the free land, they told it. They did so love firelight and Free-dom, and tellin.
And they would walk up on the air like climbin up on a gate. And they flew like blackbirds over the fields. Black, shiny wing
flappin against the blue up there.
And John was figurin he might as well give it up. He scratched his head and shifted his feet around.
The Driver got his whip ready to curl around old Toby and tie him up. The slaveowner took his hip gun from its place.