Which excerpt from the people could fly reflects the historical fact that enslaved people carried cultural elements of their country of origin with them to america? toby come over and spoke words to the fallen one. the words of ancient africa once heard are never remembered completely. the folks were full of misery, then. got sick with the up and down of the sea. so they forgot about flyin when they could no longer breathe the sweet scent of africa. say that long ago in africa, some of the people knew magic. and they would walk up on the air like climbin up on a gate. the ones that could fly shed their wings. they couldn't take their wings across the water on the slave ships.