Your journey begins at one of the most profound and under visited landmarks in America and winds through some of the most historically loaded blocks in New York. Along the way, your Docent will guide you past sacred memorials, the streets where fortunes were built on stolen labor, waterfront sites tied to the Transatlantic Trade, locations of resistance and revolt, and pathways that freedom seekers once walked in secret. The full itinerary is revealed on the day—because some histories deserve to be experienced, not previewed. Beneath the towers of global finance, a far older story is waiting to be told—one most New Yorkers will never hear. In this immersive, intimate walking experience, your expert Diaspora Docent pulls back the curtain on the true architects of New York City: the enslaved and free Africans whose labor, sacrifice, and defiance forged this metropolis long before its skyline existed. This is not a surface-level history lesson. Expect to be moved and leave changed.

The spiritual heart of the tour, this monument honors the 15,000 enslaved and free Africans buried here. We spend significant time discussing its 1991 rediscovery and its importance as a space for claiming ancestral history.