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  • 2026 Registration
  • Call For Speakers
  • Our Mission and Vision.
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Step Inside History 

STEP INSIDE HISTORY

Immersive African American heritage experiences powered by cinematic storytelling, spatial audio, and real-world locations.


The Taste of Freedom Community Benefit Program, fiscally sponsored by Fiscal Sponsorship Allies (EIN 85-0839183), is a place-based cultural initiative dedicated to preserving and activating African American history through immersive experiences and digital twin technology. 


Ticket sales, corporate sponsorships and your donations help us provide no-cost and subsidized heritage experiences for Baltimore City youth and community members.


Taste of Freedom Tours is not just preserving history—
we are building the digital infrastructure for how it will be experienced in the future.

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Taste of Freedom Tours 2026 Itinerary

3/19/2026

AMERICA250: The Underground Underwater Tour

12pm

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7pm

Depart Owings Mills Metro Center - Baltimore County Library 10302 Grand Central Ave, Owings Mills, MD to Cambridge, MD.

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3/19/2026

AMERICA250: The Underground Underwater Tour

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Few landscapes in the world have such a compelling historical figure so closely associated with a legacy of family, freedom,...

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12pm

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7pm

Depart Owings Mills Metro Center - Baltimore County Library 10302 Grand Central Ave, Owings Mills, MD to Cambridge, MD.

POSTPONED

Nicholas "Nick" Biddle Juneteenth Civil War Tour: From Baltimore To Gettysburg

9am

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5pm

Depart Frederick Douglass - Issac Myers Maritime Musem 1417 Thames St., Baltimore, MD 21231 to Gettysburg, PA.

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Nicholas "Nick" Biddle Juneteenth Civil War Tour: From Baltimore To Gettysburg

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Celebrate the 165th Anniversary of the Civil War and the Fight For Freedom


At 4:30am on April 12, 1861 Union held Fort Sumpter...

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9am

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5pm

Depart Frederick Douglass - Issac Myers Maritime Musem 1417 Thames St., Baltimore, MD 21231 to Gettysburg, PA.

POSTPONED

Baltimore Underground on the Water Boat Tour: 170th Anniversary of the Harriet Tubman Tilly Escape

10:00am

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1:00pm

Depart Frederick Douglass - Issac Myers Maritime Musem 1417 Thames St., Baltimore, MD 21231 to Gettysburg, PA.

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POSTPONED

Baltimore Underground on the Water Boat Tour: 170th Anniversary of the Harriet Tubman Tilly Escape


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Celebrate Juneteenth Weekend 


From the bustling inner harbor to its hallowed historic streets, Baltimore is steeped in the leg...

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10:00am

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1:00pm

Depart Frederick Douglass - Issac Myers Maritime Musem 1417 Thames St., Baltimore, MD 21231 to Gettysburg, PA.

7/1/2026

Immersive 3D Virtual Reality Tour of the Historic Whiteney Plantation Wallace, Louisianna

3:30p

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4:30p

This Will Be An On-Line Immersive 3D Virtual Tour Via Zoom

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7/1/2026

Immersive 3D Virtual Reality Tour of the Historic Whiteney Plantation Wallace, Louisianna

Learn about the connection between the Baltimore Slave Trade and the New Orleans Slave Trade 


This Immersive 3D Virtual Reality Tour will be ...

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3:30p

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4:30p

This Will Be An On-Line Immersive 3D Virtual Tour Via Zoom

10/21/2026

170th Anniversary of the Harriet Tubman Tilly Escape Tour: From Baltimore To Seaford, DE

8am

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5pm

Depart Owings Mills Metro Center - Baltimore County Library 10302 Grand Central Ave, Owings Mills, MD to Seaford, DE,

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10/21/2026

170th Anniversary of the Harriet Tubman Tilly Escape Tour: From Baltimore To Seaford, DE

The Tilly Escape occurred October 21, 1856 when an enslaved woman, Tilly, was led by Harriet Tubman from slavery at the Baltimore Inner Harb...

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8am

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5pm

Depart Owings Mills Metro Center - Baltimore County Library 10302 Grand Central Ave, Owings Mills, MD to Seaford, DE,

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Immersive 3D Virtual Field Trips

Catoctin Furnace Museum of the Iron Worker

The Historic Ironmasters Mansion at Catoctin Furnace Built In 1785 Digitally Reconstructed in 2024

The Historic Ironmasters Mansion at Catoctin Furnace Built In 1785 Digitally Reconstructed in 2024

Built ca. 1820-1821, the stone worker dwelling at 12610 Catoctin Furnace Road is now known as the Museum of the Ironworker.





Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

The Historic Ironmasters Mansion at Catoctin Furnace Built In 1785 Digitally Reconstructed in 2024

The Historic Ironmasters Mansion at Catoctin Furnace Built In 1785 Digitally Reconstructed in 2024

The Historic Ironmasters Mansion at Catoctin Furnace Built In 1785 Digitally Reconstructed in 2024

The Catoctin Furnace Ironmaster's Mansion, built around 1785 near Thurmont, MD, is now ruins on a hill overlooking the historic furnace, a symbol of wealth built on enslaved labor.




Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

The Catoctin Furnace Slave Quarters Digitally Reconstructed In 2025

The Historic Ironmasters Mansion at Catoctin Furnace Built In 1785 Digitally Reconstructed in 2024

The Catoctin Furnace Slave Quarters Digitally Reconstructed In 2025

Catoctin Furnace in Maryland used enslaved African and African American labor for its iron production, housing them in log and stone dwellings that formed a community, with with some structures like the former "Mule Barn" originally built as quarters.


Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

Maryland Lynching Memorial Project

Maryland Lynching Memorial Project

The Catoctin Furnace Slave Quarters Digitally Reconstructed In 2025

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, in collaboration with the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project, announce with solemn reflection, the opening of its new permanent installation, Lynching in Maryland. 


Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

Banneker, Douglass, Tubman Museum

Maryland Lynching Memorial Project

Banneker, Douglass, Tubman Museum

The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum is the State of Maryland’s official museum of African American history and culture. Opened in 1984, it is housed here in what was originally the Mount Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church constructed in 1874. 


Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

Whitney Plantation

Maryland Lynching Memorial Project

Banneker, Douglass, Tubman Museum

The Whitney Plantation is a  museum dedicated to the history of slavery, situated on a historical sugar, indigo and rice plantation which operated from 1752-1975. 




Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

The Historic Hosanna School Established In 1867

The Historic Hosanna School Established In 1867

The Historic Hosanna School Established In 1867

The Historic Hosanna School, established in 1867 in Darlington, Harford County, Maryland, was one of the first Freedmen's Bureau schools for African Americans after the Civil War, serving as a crucial center for education and community life until 1945, and now operates as a museum preserving Black history and culture.




Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

The Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum

The Historic Hosanna School Established In 1867

The Historic Hosanna School Established In 1867

Born in 1889, Lillie Carroll was the seventh of eight children in her family. Her father was Methodist Minister Charles Henry Carroll. In 1935, she became the leader of the Baltimore Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She quickly grew chapter’s membership from 100 in 1935 to 17,600 in 1946, making Baltimore one of the largest chapters in the country.


Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

Antebellum Baltimore Inner Harbor 1812-1861

The Historic Hosanna School Established In 1867

The HBCU Store At The World Famous Baltimore Inner Harbor

Antebellum Baltimore's Inner Harbor wasn't just a maritime hub; it was a major center for the domestic slave trade from roughly 1820-1860, with wharves and streets bustling with slave markets, jails, traders like Austin Woolfolk, and ships sending thousands of enslaved people to the Deep South.




Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

The HBCU Store At The World Famous Baltimore Inner Harbor

The Story of Slemmers Alley and the Home of Tom Tubman - Harriet's Brother In Law

The HBCU Store At The World Famous Baltimore Inner Harbor

A combination of rich HBCU heritage, exquisite craftsmanship, eye for detail across all touch points across channels and high levels of quality.





Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

The Story of Slemmers Alley and the Home of Tom Tubman - Harriet's Brother In Law

The Story of Slemmers Alley and the Home of Tom Tubman - Harriet's Brother In Law

The Story of Slemmers Alley and the Home of Tom Tubman - Harriet's Brother In Law

Slemmers Alley in Baltimore was a crucial, hidden hub for the Underground Railroad, where Harriet Tubman's brother-in-law, Tom Tubman  lived and helped plan escapes, like that of an enslaved woman named Tilly.



Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

The Story of Harriet Tubman's 1856 Tilly Escape at Dugan's Wharf (Pier 4)

The Story of Slemmers Alley and the Home of Tom Tubman - Harriet's Brother In Law

The Story of Slemmers Alley and the Home of Tom Tubman - Harriet's Brother In Law

Harriet Tubman's 1856 "Tilly Escape" from Baltimore's Dugan's Wharf (now Pier 4) was a complex rescue where she used a clever, roundabout route to free Tilly, an enslaved woman whose fiancé had escaped to Canada.



Ticket Price: 

$149 for a group of up to 10  people

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