Private African American Heritage Downtown Walking Tour

Points forts

Itinéraire

1. 1

   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•Entrée libre•Voir sur la carte

2. 2

   Trinity Church Wall Street

   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•Entrée libre•Voir sur la carte

3. 3

   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•Entrée libre

4. 4

   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•Entrée libre•Voir sur la carte

5. 5

   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•Entrée libre•Voir sur la carte

6. 6

   Greenwich Village

   Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side and Lower Manhattan

   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•Entrée libre•Voir sur la carte

Point de rendez-vous

Our tour guide will meet your group at your Manhattan hotel. They will have a sign with your group's name. You may travel by public transportation depending on your location ( not included in the price of tour) to start the tour downtown.

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Prise en charge

• Prise en charge ou rendez-vous au point de départ
• 67 hôtels desservis
• Vous pouvez demander une autre adresse
• L'organisateur vous contacte pour la prise en charge
• La prise en charge commence 15 min avant le départ

À savoir avant de partir

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
• Mobile or paper ticket accepted
• One per booking

Annulation et remboursement

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