EscapeMaker launches African-American Heritage Guide

EscapeMaker.com - the Northeast's guide to weekend getaways and daytrips launches an African-American heritage guide to events, notable sites and historic tours across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

(PRWEB) February 11, 2004 --In celebration of Black History Month, EscapeMaker.com - the Northeast's guide to weekend getaways and daytrips launches an African-American heritage guide to events, notable sites and historic tours across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

Organized by state, the guide provides links to specialized tours, books and sites memorializing heroic figures like Benjamin Banneker, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, to name a few.

In addition the guide provides links to state tourism sites with suggested itineraries, as well as links to African-American museums and resources on the Underground Railroad, Slavery and African-American burial grounds.

Visitors can also enter to win a trip for 2 to historic Annapolis, MD which includes a 1 night's stay, dinner for two and an African-American history walking tour.

The guide can be accessed at:
http://www.escapemaker.com/afroamerican.html
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