"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"

Dr. Judith Saunders Burton

Dr. Judith Saunders Burton

Dr. Judith Saunders Burton, great, grandaughter of John Ford, brother of Major George Ford. Picture was taken at Mount Vernon at the slave cemetery. Her family's story is detailed in I Cannot Tell a Lie, Chapters 16, 21, 22, 24.