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Martha Ann is 12 years old when Papa finally saves enough money to buy her flexibility from slavery. In 1830, the family leaves east Tennessee to get started a new life in Liberia. On market days and nights, Martha Ann pieces the United kingdom navy patrolling the Liberian shoreline to stop slave catchers from kidnapping her relatives and buddies and forcing them back into slavery. Martha Ann chooses to say thanks to Queen Victoria in person for sending the navy. But first, she must determine how to help make the 3,500-mile voyage to Great britain, find a suitable gift idea for the Queen, and hold up against the ridicule of relatives and buddies who observe her impossible goal. Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria is the real tale of Martha Ann Ricks, an ex-slave who spent 50 years keeping spare coins to fulfill her imagine achieving the Queen of Great britain.
