St. Croix holds one of the most powerful and untold freedom stories in the entire Caribbean — and almost no one knows it. On July 3, 1848, a formerly enslaved man named Moses "Buddhoe" Gottlieb led 8,000 enslaved people in a nonviolent march to Fort Frederik and demanded their freedom. The Danish governor surrendered. Every single person was freed that day — the only successful nonviolent slave revolt leading to immediate emancipation in Caribbean history. His co-conspirator was a man named Admiral Martin King. Over 100 years later, a preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. would use the same strategy to change America. Same name. Same strategy. Different century. This 2.5-hour walking tour br...
Главные места
2 часы и 30 минуты
Предлагается в Английский
Невозвратный
Мобильный билет
2 часы и 30 минуты
Предлагается в Английский
Невозвратный
Мобильный билет
Что входит
Опытный местный гид
Местный эксперт-гид
Места встреч
Отъезд
Frederiksted
Frederiksted Pier, St. Croix
Возвращение
St. Croix African Heritage Walking Tour
St. Croix
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St. Croix holds one of the most powerful and untold freedom stories in the entire Caribbean — and almost no one knows it. On July 3, 1848, a formerly enslaved man named Moses "Buddhoe" Gottlieb led 8,000 enslaved people in a nonviolent march to Fort Frederik and demanded their freedom. The Danish governor surrendered. Every single person was freed that day — the only successful nonviolent slave revolt leading to immediate emancipation in Caribbean history. His co-conspirator was a man named Admiral Martin King. Over 100 years later, a preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. would use the same strategy to change America. Same name. Same strategy. Different century. This 2.5-hour walking tour br...
Главные места
2 часы и 30 минуты
Предлагается в Английский
Невозвратный
Мобильный билет
2 часы и 30 минуты
Предлагается в Английский
Невозвратный
Мобильный билет
Что входит
Опытный местный гид
Местный эксперт-гид
Места встреч
Отъезд
Frederiksted
Frederiksted Pier, St. Croix
Возвращение
Маршрут
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Walk the streets of the 1878 Fireburn, led by Queen Mary, Queen Agnes, and Queen Mathilda — three women who burned the plantations to demand freedom.
