Just picture, in your mind, she was a little woman.

Just picture, in your mind, this little woman, she was a little woman, but she had power.

In our family, Mother Rix was her name hand in town for

generation to generation.

Everybody call them. They're a photo call Aunt Martha.

Aunt Martha, she was with us,

created Aunt.

My mother's. created out.

My name is Evangeline B Morris Tennis. tennis. Dennis. I'm one of Evangeline's daughters. My mother hasn't been well for a while now, so her voice is a little frail. But her spirit and her memory are strong. And in this BBC podcast, we would like to share with you

the story of how our Aunt Martha met the most powerful

woman in the world, Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

That meeting was no small achievement.

Martha Ann Erskine Ricks was born into slavery in 1817 in Tennessee, the United States of America.

Her father George bought the family's freedom and they moved to Liberia in West Africa.

There she farmed the land and gained quite a reputation as a gifted needlewoman.

And at the grand old age of 76, Martha Ricks fulfilled her lifelong dream.

She traveled to England and met Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle.

Imagine that.

And she didn't go empty-handed, of course not. She brought a present, a quilt that she had

stitched herself of a coffee tree in full bloom.

When it, I didn't When I came to the Amard to make this present for Queen Victor.

The first thing came to my was to give Queen Victoria a quote of coffees.

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