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🎫 Tour ticket for 1 Adult
🎫 Tour ticket for 1 Child
🎫 Tour ticket for 1 Senior
General Info
📅 Date: Saturdays (select during purchase)
🕒 Time: 11 AM and 1 PM
⏳ Duration: 2.5 hours
📍 Meeting Point: the steps of Old Customs House/Indian Museum
👤 Age requirement: all ages welcome
📱 Next steps: you will find all necessary information regarding the experience in your Fever ticket and confirmation email
Description
On this tour, you’ll be able to see the city’s first slave market and learn about the origins of slavery in colonial New York. With your tour guide, you’ll learn about the secret escapes of the underground railroad and view a former stop along this famous route. The African burial ground is a powerful tribute to the country’s earliest known African and African American cemetery, which you’ll also have the chance to visit on the tour. Discover new facts about the riots, revolts and dramatic escapes brave men and women were a part of - this is a story of courage and triumph told in a new way.
🎫 Tour ticket for 1 Adult
🎫 Tour ticket for 1 Child
🎫 Tour ticket for 1 Senior
General Info
📅 Date: Saturdays (select during purchase)
🕒 Time: 11 AM and 1 PM
⏳ Duration: 2.5 hours
📍 Meeting Point: the steps of Old Customs House/Indian Museum
👤 Age requirement: all ages welcome
📱 Next steps: you will find all necessary information regarding the experience in your Fever ticket and confirmation email
Description
On this tour, you’ll be able to see the city’s first slave market and learn about the origins of slavery in colonial New York. With your tour guide, you’ll learn about the secret escapes of the underground railroad and view a former stop along this famous route. The African burial ground is a powerful tribute to the country’s earliest known African and African American cemetery, which you’ll also have the chance to visit on the tour. Discover new facts about the riots, revolts and dramatic escapes brave men and women were a part of - this is a story of courage and triumph told in a new way.
User reviews
4.8 /5
based on 23 reviews
- Very informative and different from other tours
- This tour was amazing. Very informative.
- Was great!
- The guide was very knowledgeable. I learned a lot on this tour
- Maya was phenomenal! I wish there were more tours like this!
- Our guide Sean O’Brien was very knowledgeable and prepared with images. He provided great context. Would definitely do this tour again.
