Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
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Flight and Slavery<br />
• Suicide during Middle Passage referred to<br />
as “flying back to Africa”<br />
• Tales <strong>of</strong> flying Africans in response to the<br />
brutality <strong>of</strong> white overseers<br />
• Flight imagery seen in burial decorations<br />
in African American cemeteries throughout<br />
the South