The standing-room-only event, held on the 158th anniversary of emancipation in Maryland, was a celebration of Annapolis being designated as a “site of memory,” one of five locations in Maryland and 42 across the United States where enslaved Africans first arrived in the Americas.
The standing-room-only event, held on the 158th anniversary of emancipation in Maryland, was a celebration of Annapolis being designated as a “site of memory,” one of five locations in Maryland and 42 across the United States where enslaved Africans first arrived in the Americas.