2.5-Hour Guided Walking Experience • $59 Per Person
BALTIMORE BLACK HISTORY WALKING TOUR
WAIT…THAT HAPPENED HERE?
That's the reaction Taste of Freedom was designed to create.
You may have walked these streets, visited the Inner Harbor, passed these buildings—or even lived in Baltimore your entire life—without knowing the freedom stories beneath your feet.
From Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to extraordinary people whose names most Americans were never taught, Taste of Freedom reveals how Baltimore became part of America's continuing struggle for freedom.
The history wasn't somewhere else. It happened here.
SEE BALTIMORE DIFFERENTLY.
Most people see Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Taste of Freedom sees something more.
Baltimore wasn’t simply a backdrop to American history. It was one of the places where the struggle over freedom played out.
Its streets, waterfront, railroads, and neighborhoods became places where people confronted extraordinary choices about slavery, resistance, survival, citizenship, and the meaning of freedom.
Before you walk the streets, discover the Baltimore you’ve never seen.
Watch this short introduction and begin uncovering the people, places, choices, and hidden stories waiting in plain sight.
Experience History Where It Happened.
History isn't confined to museum walls. It lives in Baltimore's streets, waterfront, churches, railroad stations and neighborhoods.
Taste of Freedom takes you into those places revealing the people, choices and hidden stories that shaped America's struggle for freedom.
✓ STAND WHERE IT HAPPENED.
Experience American history in the places where it unfolded.
✓ MEET THE PEOPLE.
Discover the courage, choices and consequences behind the history.
✓ DISCOVER HIDDEN HISTORIES.
Hear stories of freedom in places you may have passed many times before.
✓ READY TO EXPERIENCE IT?
Use the BOOK THE TOUR — $59 button at the top of the page to reserve your spot.
BOOK THE BALTIMORE BLACK HISTORY WALKING TOUR
Baltimore Black History Walking Tour
Explore Baltimore’s Black freedom landscape through the people, places, and networks connected to Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Nicholas "Nick" Biddle, the domestic slave trade, the Underground Railroad, and the fight for freedom.
THE STORY DOESN'T END WHEN THE TOUR DOES.
YOUR TASTE OF FREEDOM DIGITAL COMPANION
During the tour, experience the people, places, and hidden stories of Baltimore in person.
After the tour, keep exploring with the Taste of Freedom: Baltimore Digital Companion—featuring additional stories, historic images, maps, primary sources, extended videos, and location-based content.
Your tour may last 2.5 hours. Your discovery of Baltimore doesn’t have to.
Complimentary access through December 31, 2026.
Explore The Digital Companion
EXPERT VOICES. BALTIMORE STORIES.
Hear from historians and authors whose research helps bring Baltimore’s hidden freedom history into focus.
Scott Shane, author of Flee North, explores Thomas Smallwood, Baltimore’s domestic slave trade, and the freedom-seeking networks that operated within the same city.
Baltimore was a place where slave traders, freedom seekers, abolitionists, kidnappers, sailors, churches, taverns, transportation routes, and Underground Railroad networks existed side by side.
Walk the streets where Baltimore’s slave trade and freedom networks collided. Discover the city Thomas Smallwood knew—and the system he risked everything to resist.
HARRIET TUBMAN’S BALTIMORE STORY.
Dr. Kate Clifford Larson, historian, consultant, author, and leading Harriet Tubman scholar, explores Tubman’s remarkable 1856 rescue of Tilly from Baltimore’s waterfront.
Baltimore was more than a stop along the way. It was a place where freedom networks, maritime routes, Black communities, slave traders, slave catchers, and transportation systems all intersected.
As Dr. Larson explains, Tubman knew how to navigate that landscape because she understood the people, the networks, and the places that made freedom possible.
Watch the story. Then walk the places where it happened.
WHEN THE CIVIL WAR CAME TO BALTIMORE.
Dr. Anne Sarah Rubin, Professor of History at UMBC, explores the Pratt Street Riots, Nicholas “Nick” Biddle, and the political violence that made Baltimore one of the first major flashpoints of the Civil War.
In her presentation, Rubin emphasizes that Baltimore in 1860–61 was a deeply divided city; home to a large free Black population, an active slave trade, intense political violence, and competing loyalties over Union, secession, slavery, and citizenship. She also stresses how powerful it is that people can still walk the streets where this history happened today.
Walk in the footsteps of the Pennsylvania First Defenders. Stand where Nicholas “Nick” Biddle shed what has been commemorated as the first blood of the Civil War on April 18, 1861.
WHAT OUR GUESTS DISCOVERED
Abundantly grateful for this experience brother! One of the best things I've been able to witness. Literally life changing.
— Bolon A. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The lectures and the tour itself was extremely informative. I learned so much about the life of Harried Tubman.
— Ansa T. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The tour was amazing. Having Aaron Rice provide the historical background information was invaluable.
— D. Daly ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
