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Mary Seacole

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Profession
Memoirist
Died
May 14, 1881
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
KingstonJamaica
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. After her death, she was temporarily forgotten about by history before she began to gain recognition for her accomplishments. 
Family
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.

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