Private African American Heritage Downtown Walking Tour

4 hours Free cancellation Private tour

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About this activity

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.

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At a glance

Duration: 4 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–12
Guide: German, Portuguese, English, Italian, French, Spanish
Operated by: Harlem Spirituals - New York Visions

Ages: Adults (12–99 years)

What is included

Included

Included: Private walking tour
Included: Informative, friendly, professional guide

Not included

Not included: Public transportation to neighborhood
Not included: Gratuities

Itinerary

Wall Street

15 min

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.
Trinity Church NYC

20 min

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.
South Street Seaport Historic District

30 min

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.
African Burial Ground National Monument

20 min

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.
Foley Square

15 min

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.
Greenwich Village

22 min

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.

Meeting point and pickup

You can be picked up from your accommodation or go straight to the meeting point.

Meeting point

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.