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African American Tours |
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Darkumentary Of A People... |
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Life, liberty, and the Pursuits … the by-product of a diverse many, fighting for the many without rights, assuring that all enjoy these United States of America.
Photo: Tucker Cottage. Come ride with us and learn about the part this Historic Landmark played in economic freedom for freed Africans here in Richmond |
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About Us |
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Phone: 804.683.6630 www.AfricanAmericanTours.com www.YTBTravel.com/AfrAmTours E-mail: Tours@AfricanAmericanTours.com |
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We do rolling tours, identifying and taking our guests to visit the unheralded sites, places, and spaces associated with human dignity, African American heritage, and United states virtues. We are native to this historic region. We grew up here, and graduated from schools here. Others can’t tell what we can because they have not seen what we’ve seen, or been where we’ve been. More importantly, other tour groups and guides can not begin to narrate the lost communities, pride, and untold heroes and heroines who made life worth living, liberty a reality, and happiness within one’s reach. Those are the true characters and stories of our trade. We don’t just roll past places, we know what was there before progress demolished it. We started this business in 2004 to provide transit to the small groups, workers, and families, desiring independence and independent travel means. We combine this service with sharing tours and products highlighting the unheralded stories and valor of these United States.
From Gilbert Hunt’s valor during a theatre fire on East Broad Street, to Elizabeth Van Lew’s saga, and on to Maggie L. Walker’s birthplace in the same location. From Patrick Henry’s call for liberty to Prosser’s response, from Henry “Box” Brown’s transport to freedom to Sam’s sentence to the State Pen, from the original Dominion of Chief Powhatan and his Daughter, Matoaca, to European Settlements, from the ferries and toll bridges that moved enslaved humans from shipping docks to jails, auctions and markets, to toll bridge owners who became wealthy as a result of slavery, from the site where countless Africans remain buried in unidentified graves beneath massive parking lots, to the site where the United States arrived to assure enslavement no more, we share them all, the narrative befitting, and the muted facts. And we do so in an educating, enlightening, and often humorous aura. Join Us. |
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To contact us: tours@africanamericantours.com
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Before the toll Plaza... |
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Before it was an empty field... |
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Before it was a Highway ... |
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From Jackson Ward ... |
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To Bojangles’ Monument |
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Before VCU Razed Properties |
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To The Black History Museum |
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When It Was A Professional African American Community |
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The Historic And The History |
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To The Civil Rights Monument |
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Before Its Cultural Conversion |
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And The Randolph Region |