As a Black history historian living in the Washington D.C. area I found that there was no tour in the nation's capital truly dedicated to sharing the city's Black past. During my years of researching the city's history it became apparent that most of our accomplishments, struggles and triumphs remained hidden, obscured or just outright ignored.


As I took various tours, I found that they conveniently disregarded, devalued and even negated our presence. Few tours made an attempt to include our history or even acknowledge our existence. I felt like an invisible man in a city that was built by an invisible people. We were undeniably here from the beginning, but written out of the history books and ignored by the city's tours. How would Black people ever receive information about their own history in the nation's capital if things remained the same?


In 2007 I decided to answer my own question by taking my passion to the next level. Furthering my studies I obtained a D.C tour license. With this license I was able to develop a tour company dedicated to reviving the city's Black past which would acknowledge the untold stories and unveil the unseen places. Never has there been such a tour in DC willing to present this history with unabashed boldness and passion.


The Chocolate City Tour informs, enlightens, and serves as the historical bank for the millions of Black people living in, around and visiting the nation's capital. As our tour enables you to reclaim your history, you'll find out why they nicknamed the nation's capital the "Chocolate City"!

Corey Crane
President/Creator

 

 

Shedding Light On The Untold Truth

Before the existence of the District of Columbia, more than half of the Black population lived in Virginia and Maryland. The nation's capital was strategically nested between these two states and had numerous slave pens making it America's depot and the capital of the domestic slave trade.

"In Washington, D.C slave auctions were a daily occurrence. Chained human beings were marched routinely in front of the Capitol" Morgan Freeman (Slavery and the Making of America 2005)