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Beacon Hill Black Heritage Trail Private Walking Tour

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This experience is on request only. Please email us at reservations@travelcurious.com

Things to know

Duration:

2 hrs

Categories:

City Highlights, Culture, Family Friendly, First Time Visitor, History, History, Local Experience

Private Tour:

You and our own professional guide. 100% exclusive

Transport Mode:

Walking tour: no transportation is included

What's included:

What's not included:

Meeting points: Boston Massacre Site Pavement Marker, Corner of State and, Congress St, Boston, MA 02109

What makes this tour special

Explore the 2-mile walking Black Heritage Trail on Beacon Hill, where your private guide will take you through some of the histories of the community who lived on the north slope. On your private tour, you will:

Enjoy the personalised attention of your private local tour guide.
Embark on a tour of the Black Heritage trail, with 15 historic sites relating to life within a free Black community prior to the Civil War –including schools, homes, and meeting houses.
Hear the story of Crispus Attucks, the first man killed in the Boston Massacre of 1770, and considered by many to be the first violent death of the Revolution.
Learn why Massachusetts was the only state in the Union that did not have slaves in 1790.
Learn Boston’s crucial role in the Underground Railroad and why southern African Americans often set their sights on Boston.
Explore the north slope of Beacon Hill, home to Boston’s 19th century African American community, and one of the first integrated schools in 1855.
Pay respects to the 54th Regiment– the first Black Northern regiment in the Civil War -- at its memorial built in 1897.
Your tour ends in front of the African Meeting House, the oldest surviving Black church in the United States, which we recommend you purchase tickets for and tour after departing from your guide.

Your private walking tour uncovers one of the many layers of Boston’s rich history, taking you through more than a century’s worth of the African American community’s history in the city. However, the story of African-Americans in Boston centres around a larger story in America – the fight for liberty, freedom from tyranny, freedom from enslavement, independence, and equal protection under the law. As the first state to not have any enslaved people, Massachusetts became a homing beacon for many seeking a life of equality and a community – the north slope of Boston’s Beacon Hill represented that opportunity for many.

On your walking tour, you will have the chance to see many historic names and events come alive – from the bookshop where Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published to places where famed abolitionist Frederick Douglas spoke regularly. Your tour of the Black Heritage Trail will span from the site of the Boston Massacre in 1770 through to a restaurant where Malcolm X was a busboy in the 1940s.

Your tour will end at the Museum of African American History and the African Meeting House, where your guide will readily assist you in securing tickets to further explore Boston’s Black history at your leisure.

What you'll see

Beacon HIll

Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment

Boston Massacre

Granary Burying Ground

Old South Meeting House

John J. Smith House

Charles Street Meeting House

Museum of African American History

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