Mary Seacole biography   Mary Seacole was born in 1805 in
Kingston, Jamaica. Her father was a Scottish soldier and her
mother a free black Jamaican woman who was skilled in
traditional medicine. Seacole was in London in 1854 when reports
of the hardships for soldiers in the Crimean War were made
public. She went to the Crimea, assisted at the military
hospitals and distributed remedies for cholera and dysentery.
Seacole died in 1881.