"High John de Conquer came to be a man, and a mighty man at that. But he was not a natural man in the beginning. First off, he was a whisper, a will to hope, a wish to find something worthy of laughter and song. Then the whisper put on flesh. His footsteps sounded across the world in a low but musical rhythm as if the world he walked on was a singing-drum..."
----High John de Conquer, Zora Neale Hurston----
Mythical Black folk hero High John is said to be summoned by his root (thought to be the root of the Ipomoea purga plant). This work aims to bring the story into a spotlight that it has long been left out of.
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