"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"
Housing for the Enslaved
This is a recreated depiction of the enslaved dormitory where the Mount Vernon enslaved workers lived. It is estimated that about 60 individuals were crammed into this housing in 1799.
