Mary Seacole: Angel of the Crimea (1 of 4)
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2012
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Feisty, fearless and funny, Mary Seacole was such a celebrity in Victorian England that, in July 1857, she drew a paying public of no less than 80,000 people to concerts staged in her honour. The charismatic 'doctress' from Jamaica -- a staunch British patriot and a fiercely proud Creole -- had won the hearts of the nation for her work treating the sick and dying, sometimes under fire, in the Crimean War of 1854-6.
What makes her achievements all the more remarkable is that she had been rejected by the British authorities and Florence Nightingale's recruitment team when she first volunteered her services - because of the colour of her skin. Undaunted, she decided to go it alone.
Though forgotten for much of the Twentieth Century, in 2005, the bicentenary of her birth, Mary Seacole was voted the greatest black Briton in history in a national BBC television poll.
50' Drama-documentary, 2005
Starring Angela Bruce
Written and directed by Sonali Fernando
Angela Bruce is so adorable as Mrs Cole. She brings so much life to her character. Very interesting film.
this is so amazing that moment when she smiled while relaxing with a tea speaks so many volumes as human, as a nurse, as woman as a counterpart of florence
British soldiers adored her.
thank u so very, very much for sharing this. well done u.
I almost died when at their wedding she kissed him on the forehead 😂
I watched this for my school work
this is very intresting
mary is cool she helped 700 solula
where can i get the narrative in notes?
Ever since slavery and colonisation, black and white people have been coupling in the Caribbean. In fact, all the ethnic groups coupled.
Marriage of convenience allot of people don't want the truth, Angela Bruce is a great actress underrated unfortunately typical of many Africans and many West Indians and Europeans.
Talk about prejudice in the African, West Indian and East Indian i.e. Indians from India bleach their skin for high society also Persian woman bleach. Naomi Campbell dates white men exclusively, the only reason why you see and hear the term mixed race is because it sounds better than Half cast, Octoroon applied to define the ancestry of people of mixed-race, generally of African and European ancestry.
Many mixed people believe they are better, so a mixed person who has a child with a Caucasian is either 1/3 or 1/8, yet they will look down on their parents good grief.
She wasn't a nurse. She didn't set foot in a hospital in the Crimea. She had a posh restaurant for officers. She sold her self made medicines (lead medicine and mercury ointment?). Read for yourself: The Project Gutenberg eBook of Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, by Mary Seacole.
Sad for her
omg...8:00 marriage of convenience...that's not the impression I got. Women can be such haters LOL
i KNOW RIGHT!
She WAS a doctor.
I learned this in the army museum
She was never a nurse, she opened a pub for officers only
I'm down with the swirl and her marrying a white man.... But a man from ESSEX?!?! That is totally unacceptable!!!
Angel…in the sense the treatments she forced on people invariably hastened them meeting the angels fairly soon.
This might be so but she was a DOCTOR!
Doctoress.different thing.
Unfortunately, the reality of Seacole, and the Myth of Seacole are 2 very different things. She was not a nurse, she never claimed to be a nurse, and she was not associated with any hospitals. She was a kind hearted woman who was more of mother figure to the men. She would offer alcohol, food and home remedies to soldiers, for which she was popular with them men. She displayed bravery by comforting wounded men on the battle fieled. ..However, she was not a pioneering. She was recognised in her time for her contribution, and she was not employed by Nightingale, as she had no medical training by her own admission. ...The Seacole Myth begins in the late 1980s as an attempt to push a positive black female role model, by leftists to fit their multicultural utopia, that have been planning all along. Hence what we see now in the UK. Also worth noting is that she was 3/4 white and 1/4 black. Definitely not looking the actress playing her here, as Seacole herself described her skin to be more of a yellow than a brown. Think of the footballer Ross Barkely, who is also 1/4 black and 3/4 white.
I had hardly heard of her before. I just read a bit more. She was born in Jamaica in 1805 and didn't come to England until 1821, when she was age 16. There were no state schools until 1870 and even then not in Jamaica, and schooling wasn't compulsory until 1880 and even then only until age 10. By the end of th era Victorian era the leaving age was raised to 13.
There weren't even private schools in Jamaica then. Certainly not state paid schools either. So it is clearly a Big Fat Lie that she was picked on at school for being the only black.
Also, parents didn't pay for girls to go to school when she was a child. If they were from wealthy enough families they had home tutors but many fully adult women during the Victorian era were illiterate or almost so, regardless of class, as it was considered a waste of money to pay for daughters to go to school when they were "only going to marry and stay at home with children". That attitude was anywhere in the world.
In addition she unwittingly poisoned patients with Mercury and lead treatments. Obviously she wasn't the only one doing that. Both mercury and lead did 'cure' certain things and unfortunately the link wasn't made to any ensuing illnesses and deaths with such poisons.
Even Wikipedia is less untruthful, and that's saying something.
The lies of history for political purposes.
Nurses claim her as one of us, although they call her a "doctor" here.
Doctoress 19c Jamaica magical power able to cure illness through herbal medicine.
Wow more seacole bullshit. She ran a hotel, and handed out champagne to spectators of the battles. She was Creole, not black, a businesswoman who saw an opportunity to make money from a war. She got there after most of the main battles, conditions had already started to improve. Read her autobiography if you want the truth rather than the bullshit.
I thought creole did mean black, if she half jamaican then she half black right
Read it good book.
@@BlackStar-uh5xv She was 3/4 white and 1/4 black...so basically, like the footballer Ross Bark;ey