Mary Seacole
The ''Greatest Black Briton in History'' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. "The Times" called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria''s nephew called her, simply, ''Mammy'' - Mary Seacole was one of the most eccentric and charismatic women of her era. Born at her mother''s hotel in Jamaica in 1805, she became an independent ''doctr...
The ''Greatest Black Briton in History'' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. "The Times" called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria''s nephew called her, simply, ''Mammy'' - Mary Seacole was one of the most eccentric and charismatic women of her era. Born at her mother''s hotel in Jamaica in 1805, she became an independent ''doctr...
