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We are natives to this historical region. We depend upon our firsthand knowledge and experience about Richmond, and this Region. We don't have to depend upon second and third-hand accounts and perspectives. No matter how you cut it, being native gives us an insight that is not attainable by guessing, wishing, or pretense. You either know, or someone told you what you think you know. We were born and reared here. We grew up in the shadows of the many tributes to African American failure. Tributes that said, and still say today, Africans should forever be chattel. Tributes that said men should own men, and men were animals to be bought, sold, and bartered. Assertions that said God ordained such beliefs. Taught in buildings named for those who lived and died to keep it that way. Appearances notwithstanding, we didn't let the numbers stop us. We didn't let a history of mistreatment make us hate, or be hateful. We didn't demean the glorification of human agony. We started this business in 2004 to provide transit to the small groups, workers, and families, desiring independence and independent travel means. We combine this service with sharing tours and products highlighting the unheralded valor of these United States. From Gilbert Hunt's valor during a theatre fire on East Broad Street, from Elizabeth Van Lew's saga, to Maggie L. Walker's birthplace in the same location, from Patrick Henry's call for liberty to Prosser's response, from Henry Box Brown's transport to freedom to Sam's sentence to the State Pen, from the original Dominion of Chief Powhatan and his Daughter, Matoaca, to European Settlements, from the ferries and toll bridges that moved enslaved humans from shipping docks to markets, to toll bridge owners who became wealthy as a result of slavery, to the site where countless Africans remain buried in unidentified graves beneath parking lots, we share the sites, the narrative befitting, and the muted facts. And we do so in an educating, enlightening, and often humorous aura. Freedom was bought by the sweat and genius of many peoples Join us for a Darkumentary of the People... They lived for liberty, fought for freedom, and loved All.