Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Martha Ricks NPG x38887

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elliott & Fry

Born into slavery in eastern Tennessee, she was bought out of slavery by her father a freed slave. In 1830 she and her family emigrated to Liberia as part of the American Colonisation Society's work which supported the migration of free African Americans to the continent of Africa. Ricks earned a living as a crop grower and farmed turkeys but she also harboured a lifelong ambition to meet Queen Victoria. On 11 July 1892, aged 76, she arrived in Liverpool aboard the Calabar from Monrovia... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.