Wonderful Adventures Of MrsSeacole In Many Lands

Mary Seacole Was Born In In Jamaica, The Daughter Of AScottish Soldier And AFree Black WomanFrom Her Mother She Learned Traditional African Herbal Medicine And Also Incorporated European Medical Ideas Into Her TreatmentsWhen The Crimean War Began In , She Offered Her Services To Nurse The Wounded But Was RejectedUndeterred, She Set Up The ,british Hotel, Just Behind The Lines, Selling Food And Drink And Caring For Injured SoldiersThis Book Is The Story Of Those Times, Told In Mary Seacole,s Own Words, ATime When ,mother Seacole, Was AFamiliar Figure On The Front Lines, Traveling With Two Mules Packed With Food And Medicines, And Alleviating, In The Words Of Another Eyewitness To The Conflict, Lady Alicia Blackwood, 'the Sufferings Of Those Around Her, Freely Giving To Such As Could Not Pay, And To Many Whose Eyes Were Closing In Death, From Whom Payment Could Never Be Expected.' In Mary Seacole Was Awarded The Jamaican Order Of Merit, She Was Voted The Greatest Black Briton In .
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