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Seacole, Mary Jane
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The Oxford Companion to Black British History, 1 ed., 2007.
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English
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(c.1805–1881). Jamaican nurse, hotelier, entrepreneur, writer, and heroine of the Crimean War. She was born Mary Grant, but no official records of her birth or parentage exist; in her autobiography, [...]