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Biography of Mary Seacole, a pioneering nineteenth-century British-Jamaican nurse.
Mary Seacole's remarkable life began in Jamaica, where she was born a free person, the daughter of a black mother and white Scottish army officer. Ron Ramdinwho, like Seacole, was born in the Caribbean and emigrated to the United Kingdomtells the remarkable story of this woman, celebrated today as a pioneering nurse.
Refused permission to serve as an army nurse, Seacole took the remarkable step of funding her own journey to the Crimean battlefront, and there, in the face of sometimes harsh opposition, she established a hotel for wounded British soldiers. Unlike Florence Nightingalewhose exploits saw her venerated as the "lady with the lamp" for generations afterwardSeacole cared for soldiers perilously close to the fighting. As Ramdin shows in this biography, Seacole's time in Crimea, for which she is best known, was only the pinnacle of a life of adventure and travel.
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