Parole Before it was annexed by Annapolis in 1951, Parole was a predominately African American community along West Street between Chinquapin Round Road and Old Solomon's Road. The name is derived from the Civil War era when Camp Parole became the place for the processing and exchange of deserters and other prisoners of war from the Union and Confederate armies. The encampment was closed down in 1865 before the war ended. Parole became a settlement for newly freed and discharged African American Civil War veterans and their families.