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Newport Black History Walking Tour: Explore Colonial Stories

By Newport Black History Walking Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is £15 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 15m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

Experience Newport’s little-known Black history on a tour of Colonial-era Historic Hill. This unique opportunity brings you to historic locations designated with Rhode Island Slave History Medallion (RISHM) markers and other local landmarks. Your RISHM tour guide will introduce you to early Black Americans, their contributions, acts of resistance, and struggles for freedom that shaped not only Newport but the nation.

Activity location

  • Trinity Church
    • Queen Anne Square,
    • 02840, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 13 Bowens Wharf
    • 13 Bowens Wharf
    • 02840, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

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Newport Black History Walking Tour: Explore Colonial Stories

  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 15 minutes1h 15m
    1h 15m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 10:00
Price details
£14.87 x 1 Adult£14.87
Total
Price is £14.87
Until Fri, 24 Jul

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Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Trinity Church

  • 10m
Trinity Church, on Queen Anne Square in Newport, Rhode Island, is a historic parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. Founded in 1698, it is the oldest Episcopal parish in the state. It is a National Historic Landmark, built 1725-26.

Vernon House

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket not included
Vernon House is the only house in Newport, built, improved, and maintained with profits of the slave trade. Over 40 African slave-trading voyages were financed by the Vernon brothers. A National Landmark. (Tour outside only)

The Newport Colony House

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket not included
Colony House is the 4th oldest in the US, built by free and enslaved workers. A national landmark building. (Tour outside only)

Location

Activity location

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    Trinity Church
    • Queen Anne Square,
    • 02840, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    13 Bowens Wharf
    • 13 Bowens Wharf
    • 02840, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

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