In 1929, she began a series of research trips to the American South and the Caribbean, funded in part by Rosenwald and Guggenheim fellowships. These trips resulted in Hurston’s major anthropological works, including Tell My Horse, a first-hand account of the mysteries of Voodoo. Based on her personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of Voodoo practices, this travelogue into an unknown world paints a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies and customs and superstitions of great cultural importance. Tell My Horse is groundbreaking in its efforts towards theorizing the African diaspora from the Black American perspective, and examining the cultural continuities and differences that emerged as Black communities existed across the Americas and Europe as a result of the slave trade.