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♀️ Feminist Friday ♀️ Mary Seacole Mary Seacole, née Mary ..
🕑 Added 2023-05-12 11:00:05 +0000 UTC ♀️ Feminist Friday ♀️ Mary Seacole Mary Seacole, née Mary Jane Grant, (born 1805, Kingston, Jamaica—died May 14, 1881, London, England), Jamaican businesswoman who provided sustenance and care for British soldiers at the battlefront during the Crimean War. *** Disclaimer: It is important to remember that some of the women you will read about during Feminist Friday will have done unsavory, bad, and sometimes even terrible or unforgivable things during their lives. I have decided to include any women found to be problematic rather than disregard them entirely because I believe that it would be a disservice to do otherwise. The different women discussed here have lives that span over thousands of years during which life on Earth and humanity in general changed immensely and unrecognizably. Some of their values will be outdated. Some will be laughable. Some offensive. However, I implore you to try and look at these women as individual members of a world made to tame, shame, shackle, subjugate, abuse, and kill them. Do not ignore the horrors of the past. You are free to dislike them (I dislike many!) but recognize their achievements within the context of their time and place in the world. Her father was a Scottish soldier, and her mother was a free black Jamaican woman and “doctress” skilled in traditional medicine who provided care for invalids at her boardinghouse. In 1836 Mary Grant married Edwin Horatio Seacole, and during their trips to the Bahamas, Haiti, and Cuba she augmented her knowledge of local medicines and treatments. After her husband’s death in 1844, she gained further nursing experience during a cholera epidemic in Panama, and, after returning to Jamaica, she cared for yellow fever victims, many of whom were British soldiers. Seacole was in London in 1854 when reports of the lack of necessities and breakdown of nursing care for soldiers in the Crimean War began to be made public. Despite her experience, her offers to serve as an army nurse were refused, and she attributed her rejection to racial prejudice. In 1855, with the help of a relative of her husband, she went to Crimea as a sutler, setting up the British Hotel to sell food, supplies, and medicines to the troops. She assisted the wounded at the military hospitals and was a familiar figure at the transfer points for casualties from the front. At the war’s end she returned to England destitute and was declared bankrupt. In 1857 her autobiography, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, was published and became a best seller. A festival was held in her honour to raise funds and acknowledge her contributions, and she received decorations from France, England, and Turkey. After her death she fell into obscurity but in 2004 took first place in the 100 Great Black Britons poll in the United Kingdom.
