"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"
West Ford and Priscella Bell
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The Paternity of West Ford
Following is a list of responses to several questions posed to the Ford family. This information was gathered... |
News paper article from the Pittsburgh Courier Newspaper describing West Ford as the Negro son of George Washington, 1940. |
The New Yorker posed the paternity of West Ford in an article titled: "Did George Washington Have an Enslaved Son" by Jill Abramson, March 2022. The article discusses Gum Springs... |
Descendants and Sisters, Linda Allen Hollis, Angela Allen Henry, and Joy Allen Stone, stand by the old tomb of George Washington. In Ford oral history, West Ford's remains were... |
This is a display of West Ford at the Mount Vernon Museum, 2022. It discusses his management of Mount Vernon and his assistance with the renovation process requested by the Mount Vernon... |
West Ford was instrumental in assisting with the renovation of the Mount Vernon when the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association purchased the plantation from John Augustine Washington III.... |
