"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"

Ford Descendant at Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery

Ford Descendant at Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery

Joy Allen Stone visiting the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery in 2021. (Photo Credit Mark Hollis for WFL).