"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

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).