“Mary Seacole” Ron Ramdin (2005) Review | Determination to help her “sons”

Mary Seacole
Ron Ramdin, 2005
190 pages
Read in 2020.07
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✔ Biography of a Jamaican nurse
✔ Often compared with Nightingale 
✔ Insightful and encouraging life


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★★ Jamaican British nurse whom British and Nightingale rejected for being non-White, but she pushed her way through serve her mother country in Crimea regardless and was loved.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

Biography of a Jamaican British nurse who pushed her way through to Crimea to serve her mother country.

Contemporary to Florence Nightingale, Seacole chose to be closer to the battlefield, not only financially funded her way through to the battlefield, she established a sort of restaurant business to support herself while working as a nurse.

Why did she have to make her money to help the wounded British soldiers? 
Because the British government and Nightingale rejected her, precisely for being non-White.

It's a revelation of the dark side of Nightingale, as well as the determination of the mixed race woman, who paid little attention to the colour of her skin but more to serve the Britain and her dying and wounded "sons" (she called soldiers sons). 

But Britain did not show the gratitude she well deserved. 
As it's been said many times elsewhere, it's not correct to refer to her as "a black Nightingale", they were very different and the impression we get today from the record is, a very strict Nightingale didn't appreciate Seacole much who gave not only care to the wounded but also joy.

🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Mary Seacole

●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Mary Seacole (Life & Times)

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Mary Seacole (English)