TOUR DATES: JUN 24, JUL 22

Port of Entry: Boys and Girls for Sale

Sankofa Tour Guide:  JerriAnne Boggis

Local newspapers carried merchants’ ads for ships returning to the port of Portsmouth laden with cargo from trade ports on the West Coast of Africa, the West Indies and the middle Atlantic coastal cities of Colonial America. Visit local wharves and auction sites related to the Atlantic Slave Trade, where a captive could be exchanged for “cash or good lumber” to serve in the master’s house or work on the docks or on a ship. See how slavery in the North compared to the South.

Tours are $20 pp
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or pay cash onsite.

Unless otherwise noted, all tours meet at 2 pm at the flagpole on Marcy Street, across from Strawbery Banke Museum.