Mary Seacole: Angel of the Crimea (4 of 4)
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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
Honour to whom honour is due. Thank you for your inspiring life.
Such an inspiring story! And a real example as to how people should be and how they should view themselves and each other. Not just in racal stereotyps and factions. The fact that she lived so early and did what she did in the time she did makes her even more remarkable. Thanks for the upload!
Mrs.Mary Seacole, Iadmire you soo much! you inspired me ! you should get a noble prize!
I found about Mary Seacole while reading Florence Nightingale biography. Once I found out that Florence didn't want her because of her color I was hurt but at the same time amazed that Mary Seacole didn't let prejudice stop her from attaining her goal. She is one of my favorite hero's. Thanks for the upload. I really appreciate it.
What an amazing and highly inspiring lady she was. Loved this very well shot and interesting film. Wonder why Mrs Seacole is not as popular as Florence Nightingale. I had never heard of her before seeing this movie. Thank you so much for the upload. :)
i love her life story....efficiency at its best. I'm a nurse and i want to be like her someday efficient nurse ever !!!
What an inspirational woman. You go gurl!
Jamaica, a nation of leaders & Revolutionaries : Nanny, Cudjoe, Boukman, Sam Sharpe, Paul Bogle ,Dexter Gordon, Garvey, Marley, Bolt, & Mary Seacole.
Any woman who cares for her nation's soldiers as her sons is a mother to her nation. Mother Seacole was a mother to Great Britain, a hero in her own right, a pioneer in kindness towards humanity.
If Queen Victoria had sent for Mary when Prince Albert was dying I'll bet he might have survived and then she really would have been remembered
thank you for the upload :)
Thanks so much for this doc!!! My Grade 5 class will love it.
Fabulous! Inspirational!
This has really helped me with my Mary Seacole project. :D
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.
Lovely, lovely woman. ' let us blow a kiss to Seacole , and shake a fist at Nightingale'
I take it you're being sarcastic....
yes me to ..how insparative
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