The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton

           The People Could Fly is a book that tells the tale of how African Americans slowly break away from their old lives of slavery and become free once more. The illustrations are done by Leo and Diane Dillon, and they depict the “flight to freedom” of the African Americans in a truly beautiful way. This book is great to use in a unit on slavery or a Social Studies unit on the abolition of slavery. As a teacher, I feel like it will be my duty to educate my students on such pressing matters such as slavery so that they know how truly truly wrong it was and still is. The People Could Fly will help me do this when I become a teacher.