However, Mary Seacole's recognition is especially important for lots of people from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. Mary was a Jamaican-born woman who cared for British soldiers who ...

Mary: Mary Seacole…that’s me…born more than two hundred years ago in Jamaica. My father was a white man, and my mother black. That meant I was a Creole and I was proud to be so. My mother ...