Celebrating Black History Month

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Celebrating Black History Month

• Promote knowledge of black history
• To enlighten people about the contributions made
  by black people

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Mary Seacole was born in Kingston in Jamaica in
1805.
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Her mother was Jamaican and her father was a
Scottish soldier.
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Her mother was a nurse and treated people with
local medicines and herbs.
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Mary played at being a nurse with her dolls and
pet animals.
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At the age of 12, Mary was helping her mother to
nurse sick people.
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We don't know if she went to school but she could
read and write.
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Mary loved to watch boats and she wanted to
travel.
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Mary opened a hotel in Jamaica. She cared for ill
soldiers and their families.
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When she was young Mary travelled a lot. This was
unusual for a woman then.
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The Crimean War began in 1854 and Mary wanted to
help the wounded soldiers.
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She travelled to England, but no one accepted her
offer to nurse ill soldiers.
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Mary was determined to go to the Crimea and paid
her own fare there.
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She visited Florence Nightingale's hospital, but
Mary had her own plans.
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She opened her British Hotel which was 2 miles
from the fighting in Balaclava.
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She sold soldiers things they needed such as tins
of soup, linen, saddles and boots.
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She cooked meals like Irish stew and rice pudding
for the soldiers.
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Mary ran a daily clinic to help ill soldiers.
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Mary also helped on the battlefield, at times
even under cannon fire.
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The men loved her and called her Mother
Seacole. She was very kind.
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At the end of the war she was left with many
unsold things in her shop.
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When she returned to Britain Mary had no money,
but her friends helped her.
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As well as the soldiers, many British people
liked her.
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Mary was given medals by Britain, Turkey and
France for her bravery in the war.
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She wrote a book about her life. It was a
best-seller at that time.
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Mary died in 1881 aged 76. She is buried in
London in England.
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Mary SeacoleBorn 1805. Died 1881.