"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
Private Libations
This photo shows former Mount Vernon employee, Brenda Parker, providing private libations for the Ford family ancestors buried in the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery: Jenny (grandmother of West Ford), Venus (mother of West Ford), Bettey (sister of West Ford), Priscella, (wife of West Ford), William and Henrietta (son and daughter-in-law of West Ford, Jane and Porter Smith (daughter and son-in-law of West Ford), and Julia and Corrill Rodgers (daughter and son-in-law of West Ford) 2021. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for WFL).
