🏨 Private African American Heritage Downtown Walking Tour Activity

Private African American Heritage Downtown Walking Tour

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From $200.00

Price varies by group size

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 4 hours

Departs: New York, New York

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

Overview

A private guide is one of the best ways to experience the city ! Learn about the history of African Americans in New York City. Explore Wall Street a former slave market, the Five Points originally the first free black settlement and learn about the First Free African Schools, Mother AME Zion the first Black church and the African burial ground. Trace the steps to freedom as you uncover hidden sites of the Underground Railroad.

What's Included

Informative, friendly, professional guide

Private walking tour

What's Not Included

Gratuities

Public transportation to neighborhood

Traveler Information

ADULT: Age: 12 - 99

Additional Info

Face masks required for travellers in public areas
NY State requires proof of vaccination for access for indoor public spaces such as buses, restaurants etc.
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Face masks required for guides in public areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Public transportation options are available nearby

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Wall Street

Built by Africans to protect the Dutch settlement, Wall Street
Housed NYC’s First Slave Market where African and Native Americans were bought, sold, and leased as day laborers.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Trinity Church

Archives from June 1696 mention that the church used slave labor to construct a thirst church. They also practiced services for slaves and free blacks like catechism, burials, in its churchyard and were the precursor to the African Free School.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

South Street Seaport Historic District

See some of the oldest architecture and the largest concentration of restored early 19th-century commercial buildings in the city. New York was a major player in the Tans-Atlantic Slave Trade which persisted despite it being outlawed.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

African Burial Ground National Monument

Workers on a construction site uncovered the remains of more than 419 Africans buried during the late 17th and 18th centuries; the largest colonial-era cemetery for people of African descent. The memorial was dedicated in 2007 to commemorate the role of Africans and African Americans in colonial and federal New York City, and in United States history.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Foley Square

Originally the site of New York City's first free black settlement, by 1850 the Five Points district in lower Manhattan had instead become infamous for its dance halls, bars, gambling houses, and its mixed-race clientele.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side and Lower Manhattan was the home to North America’s earliest free Black settlement in the 1640s. Minetta Lane, Street and Place were called “Little Africa” . Mother AME Zion Church was the first Black church in New York City.

22 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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