Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born writer and nurse who was born on November 23, 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica. She is remembered for her memoir Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, and for her work during the Crimean War, where she assisted soldiers and fought for racial tolerance by celebrating her multi-ethnic heritage.
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About
Remembered for her 1857 memoir Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, this Jamaican-born Writer and nurse assisted Soldiers during the Crimean War and fought for racial tolerance by openly celebrating her multi-ethnic heritage.
Before Fame
She first traveled from her native Jamaica in the early 1820s, living in England for a year and doing her best to combat the racial prejudice she encountered there.
Trivia
During the Crimean War, she traveled overseas and established a medical and rest facility in Crimea (modern-day Ukraine) known as the British Hotel.
Family Life
The child of a Scottish military man and a Jamaican Medicine woman, she was born Mary Jane Grant and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1830s, she married Edwin Horatio Hamilton Seacole.
Associated With
She and Florence Nightingale both nursed Soldiers wounded in the Crimean War.