A letter from Harriet Thompkins to John Finley Crowe dated January 26, 1852 in Kentucky, Liberia (now Monrovia). Thompkins and her family moved to Liberia as part of the colonization movement in the United States, in which black families were encourage to move to Africa. Crowe assisted Thompkins and her family in this endeavor. In the letter, she describes how her husband and four of her children have died. She describes livings conditions, lacks of work, poverty, lack of supplies, and the sickness. On 29 March 1852, Crowe send the letter to John King asking that he help assist Mrs. Thompkins. The family sailed on the brig Alida from New Orleans in 1851.

Creator

• Thompkins, Harriet

Subject

• Crowe, John Finley, 1787-1860

• Missionaries

• Health

• Death

• God

• Monrovia (Liberia)

Publisher

• Hanover College

Language

• English

Identifier

• MSS1_Box3_F6_4

Keyword

• Hanover College, Crowe Family Papers, MSS 1

Date created

• 1852-01-26

Resource type

• Other

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/