Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination

Travels with Tooy is a captivating journey through time and space, as anthropologist Richard Price encounters a mysterious priest, philosopher, and healer living in a remote shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana.

With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship, this book recounts their mutually enlightening and mind-expanding adventures across centuries, continents, and the worlds of the living and the dead.

Join Price and Tooy on their thrilling expedition as they delve into the lives of newly arrived African slaves, battle colonial armies, encounter double agents and femme fatale forest spirits, and even venture underwater to speak with sea gods who control the world's money supply.

This enchanting book draws on Price's long-term ethnographic and archival research, but above all on Tooy's teachings, songs, stories, and secret languages to explore how Africans in the Americas have created marvelous new worlds of the imagination.

Don't miss out on this unforgettable journey through history, mythology, and the human experience.