"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"

Hannah Ford

 Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery Ceremony

Photo of Rohulamin Quander and Linda Allen Hollis, October 2022. The two share family history through the marriage of Hannah Ford, granddaughter of West Ford.  Hannah married...

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Hannah Ford

Photo of Hannah Ford, daughter of William and Henrietta Bruce, granddaughter of West Ford. She was born around November 0f 1850. Hannah married the Civil War Veteran John Pierson Quander on...

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