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Mary Seacole

Mary Seacole (1805-1881)
The Most Famous Black Woman of the Victorian Era
One half of the odd couple of Crimean nursing - the jolly black businesswoman who swore by folk remedies, in stark contrast to Florence Nightingale's by-the-book Victorian approach to medicine.

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