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but also the scintillating story of a man who refused to allow anyone to tell him who or what he was

In Search of Mary Seacole by Helen Rappaport royal family they immersed themselves in distantHaving been raised in Jamaica and worked in Panama, Mary Seacole came to England in the 1850s and volunteered to help out during the Crimean War. When her services were turned down, she financed her own expedition to Balaclava, where she earned her reputation as a nurse and for her compassion. Popularly known as 'Mother Seacole', she was the most famous Black celebrity of her generation an extraordinary achievement in Victorian Britain. She regularly