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2024 Sankofa Guided Walking Tours

Black Heritage Trail Tours Portsmouth Exeter Milford Kittery, ME HancockTours offered by the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) reveal the region’s rich and often forgotten African American history. The stories our Sankofa Scholars have uncovered and now share with visitors illustrate how the earliest Africans in this country were committed to self-determination, resourcefulness, and community service. This nuanced American history continues to shape our collective present and future. These themed guided tours allow visitors to realize…

Virtual Tours

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The Trail is pleased to offer free virtual tours for you to experience a bit of New Hampshire’s Black history from the comfort of home. If you enjoy these tours, you can support our work by making a donation to the Trail here.Visit us often as we add more virtual tours.You can request a private guided tour at any time throughout the year hereI was a slave, even here in New Hampshire:The Concord Black Heritage Tour Good Friday Walk of PortsmouthOna Marie Judge…

Trolley & Bus Tours

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Saturday, June 10 | Bus Tour, Canterbury Shaker Village | $35 – $45 AFRICAN ROOTS: HERBAL MEDICINE, INOCULATION & THE SHAKER CONNECTION By the beginning of the nineteenth century, Europeans and Africans living in America joined with Native Americans, creating plant-based therapies to care for the body. The Shakers, at Canterbury and other villages, not only adopted some of these therapies but also refined and sold their own remedies.Join Curator and Historian Dr. Shirley Wajda for a special talk…

Sankofa Guided Walking Tours

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New Hampshire Black Heritage Trail Portsmouth Hancock Warner Milford Exeter Kittery, ME Tours offered by the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) explore our rich and often forgotten African-American history. The stories our Sankofa Scholars have uncovered and share with visitors illustrate how the earliest Africans in America were committed to self-determination, service, and building community. This nuanced and shared history continues to shape our collective present and future. The BHTNH series of…

Schedule a Private Guided Tour

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Guided Walking ToursPortsmouth Self-guided TourPrivate, School & Group Guided ToursVisiting as a Group? The BHTNH offers several group tour options.Specially Designed ToursIf you are planning a workshop or professional development program, we would love to be a part of it! We are able to design any of our tours for presentation to businesses or to teachers to meet your needs. Please inquire for details.Please complete this form to request a group booking. Your booking will not be complete until you…

Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail Tours 2020

2020 Sankofa Guided Walking Tours

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BHTNH Expanded Tours Portsmouth Self-guided Tour Schedule a Private Guided Tour Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail 2020 Sankofa Guided Walking Tours Africans have contributed to the economic and cultural fabric of New Hampshire since the 1600s. More than 700 Blacks lived in Portsmouth by the time of the Revolution, many of them caught up as chattel in the lucrative Northern slave market while others were part of a marginalized community of free people. Experience the history and cultural roots of the…

2020 Trolley & Bus Tours

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May 2020: We are not yet offering trolley and bus tours. However, we hope to begin offering tours in July. Please check back here for updates. Thank you. Past Tour Posts

A Quest to Thrive: Economics of Slavery & Portsmouth’s Early Black Community

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July 19, Aug 15(FULL), Aug 29(FULL), Sep 19 & Oct 17 | 2:00 pm A Quest to Thrive: Economics of Slavery & Portsmouth’s Early Black Community Sankofa Scholar & Tour Guide: Angela Matthews Institutionalized slavery in Colonial America provided immense wealth and material culture to many European immigrants and their descendants in the Americas, as Portsmouth’s house museums bear witness. This tour brings into focus an economic system dependent upon the international slave trade with its constant supply of kidnapped…

2020 Aint She a Woman tour Portsmouth NH

Ain’t She A Woman: Let me tell you her story

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July 25 (FULL), Aug 22(Full), Sep 5(FULL), Sep 19, & Oct 24 (FULL) | 10:00 am Ain’t She A Woman: Let me tell you her story Sankofa Tour Guide: Valerie Fagin Can you imagine the hustle and bustle of a prosperous Colonial seaport town? This tour invites you to discover the world of early Portsmouth from the perspective of African American women. In spite of enslavement and hardship, these women fought for freedom, defied a sitting president, and educated…

Thirst for Freedom: From NH’s Slave Trade to its Civil Rights Movement

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Jul 25, Aug 1, Aug 16, Aug 30, Sep 12, Sep 27 & Oct 3(FULL) | 2:00 pm Thirst for Freedom: From NH’s Slave Trade to its Civil Rights Movement Sankofa Scholar & Tour Guide: Nur Shoop Colonial Portsmouth newspapers testify to the local slave trade, runaways, abolitionists and anti-abolitionist activities, followed by conflicting opinions of the Civil War. In the 20th century, the legacy of that early history was reflected in news about de facto segregation in housing and…