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Price is CA $893 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Overview

  • America turns 250 in 2026. The celebrations are deserved. But the full storey of those 250 years includes voices that were long left out of the official account. This private 2-hour walking tour traces the history of slavery in Colonial Williamsburg — the legal systems that enforced it, the buildings where enslaved people lived and worked, the courts that judged them, and the legislature that debated their lives as political abstractions. Your dedicated guide does not simplify this history or soften it. They bring it to life with care, context, and humanity. Colonial Williamsburg, the Courthouse, the Capitol Building, and the James Geddy House — each stop reveals a different dimension of a society built on enslaved labour. Understanding this history is not separate from celebrating America's 250th anniversary. It is essential to it.

Activity location

  • Colonial Williamsburg
    • 101 Visitor Center Drive
    • 23185-4565, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Colonial Williamsburg
    • 101 Visitor Center Drive
    • 23185, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

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Williamsburg Full Story of America's 250th Private Tour

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
CA $893.16 x 1 AdultCA $893.16
Total
Price is CA $893.16

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Official America250 Wood Key Tag
  • Inclusions
    Professional local tour guide

Know before you book

    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Colonial Williamsburg

  • 30m
The restored buildings and interpreted streets of Colonial Williamsburg tell one version of 18th-century life. This tour asks what those same streets looked like for the roughly half of Williamsburg's population who were enslaved. Your guide begins here, reframing a familiar place.

Colonial Williamsburg Courthouse

  • 30m
This courthouse administered colonial law — including the laws that governed enslaved people, determined their status, and punished resistance. Your guide examines how the legal system both reflected and enforced slavery, and what that meant for the people who stood before it.

Colonial Williamsburg Capitol Building

  • 30m
The Virginia legislature debated taxation, liberty, and independence in this building. They also made legislative decisions about slavery that shaped the lives of thousands. The same men who wrote about freedom also wrote laws that denied it. Your guide holds both truths at once.

James Geddy House

  • 30m
The Geddy family were skilled craftsmen and respected members of colonial society. They were also enslavers. This house offers a close look at the daily texture of colonial life — and at the enslaved people whose labour made that life possible, whose names are now being recovered and remembered.

Location

Activity location

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    Colonial Williamsburg
    • 101 Visitor Center Drive
    • 23185-4565, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Colonial Williamsburg
    • 101 Visitor Center Drive
    • 23185, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

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