MY HISTORY HERO
Aug 06, 2020
2 minutes
Mary Seacole
1805–81
IN PROFILE
ary Seacole was a Caribbean-born, Anglo-Jamaican businesswoman and pioneer nurse best known for the comfort that she provided for wounded British soldiers in the Crimean War. Her 1857 autobiography, , is one of the earliest memoirs of a mixed-race woman. In 2004 she was voted the greatest
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