Mary seacole

MARY SEACOLE

By wanamar
  • DATE OF BIRTH

    DATE OF BIRTH
    Mary Seacole was born in 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica.
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    FAMILY

    Her mother was Jamaican and her
    father was Scottish. Her mother ran a boarding
    house for invalid soldiers and was also an expert
    in herbal remedies, which she used to treat the
    soldiers.
  • THE BOARDING HOUSE

    THE BOARDING HOUSE
    When her mother died, Mary took over
    the boarding house and the care of the sick
    soldiers.
  • CHOLERA

    In 1850 there was a serious outbreak of
    cholera in Jamaica. Mary worked night and day
    to help the victims and created her own herbal
    medicine for the disease.
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    CRIMEAN WAR

  • THE BLACK NIGHTINGALE

    THE BLACK NIGHTINGALE
    Mary decided to go to the Crimea where she opened a boarding house there to earn the money to finance her nursing work. She regularly went out onto the battlefields to feed and care for the fallen soldiers, often putting her
    own life in danger. The soldiers loved her and called her ‘the black nightingale’.
  • HER BOOK

    HER BOOK
    She wrote her autobiography called ‘The
    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many
    Lands’. This was the only book she ever wrote,
    but it was very successful and generated enough
    money to allow her to live the rest of her life in
    comfort,
  • FORGOTTEN

    She died in 1881 and was buried in
    London, but as the years passed, her story was
    forgotten outside of her native Jamaica.
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    THE REDISCOVERY

    In 1973 a British nurse bought an old copy of
    Mary’s book in a second-hand bookshop.In 1984 ‘The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands’ was reprinted so that Mary’s story could reach a wider audience.
  • THE GREATEST BLACK BRITON

    THE GREATEST BLACK BRITON
    A woman called Mary Seacole was voted the ‘Greatest Black Briton’ of all time in a BBC poll.