Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library

White and Black Marylanders often worked shoulder-to-shoulder as indentured servants in the early 1600s—laboring for years until their terms expired and they were free to pursue their own wealth and status. As the century wore on, however, colonial lawmakers restricted Black life, establishing hereditary, race-based chattel slavery in the colony. Interracial relationships were restricted and […]

NY jazz vocalist and recording artist Vanessa Racci is coming to Annapolis to talk about Italian contributions to American jazz over the past 100 Years. She'll deliver one of the festival's popular library lectures on Saturday morning of Weekend Two. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Italian and Sicilians immigrated to New Orleans in […]