Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born nurse and healer who became a hero during the Crimean War. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805 and was of mixed African and Scottish descent. Seacole traveled to England in 1854 to offer her services as a
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Mary Jane Seacole was a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a woman of African descent in Britain.