Mary Seacole: Doctress of the Crimean War
Born Mary Jane Grant in the colony of Kingston, Jamaica, in November 1805, Mary would later become a businesswoman, traveller and healer. Posthumously, Mary is best known as a Black British nurse. Gretchen Gerzina is an author and academic who has written mostly historically-grounded biographical studies. Grethen…
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