Match each quotation from "The People Could Fly" with the correct historical fact on the right.
Enslaved people were crowded onto
Say they flew away to Free-dom.
ships and sent overseas
Sarah couldn't stand up straight any
longer. She was too weak
Enslaved African Americans passed
down their heritage through stories.
They couldn't take their wings across
the water on the slave ships.
Enslaved workers were forced to work
all day in cotton fields.
They say that the children of the ones
who could not fly told their children.
Many enslaved people ran away from
plantations and fled north to freedom.
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