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This discussion is with Richard Price, an anthropologist and historian who has written extensively on the history and culture of African Americans throughout the hemisphere. He has taught at Yale, Johns Hopkins, and William & Mary, and in France, the Netherlands, and Brazil. His prize-winning books, translated into several languages, include First-Time, Alabi’s World, The Convict and the Colonel, Travels with Tooy, and Rainforest Warriors and most recently with Sally Price, Saamaka Dreaming and Maroons in Guyane. In this conversation, we discuss Maroons in Guyane: Past, Present, Future published by University of Georgia Press in 2022. His forthcoming memoir, Inside/Outside, will be published in October 2022. Our conversation here focuses on the history of Maroon peoples in Guyane, how these groups differ from one another, and their current situations.