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Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands
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ISBN: 0195052498 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press

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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands : Edited by W. J. S.; With an Introductory Preface by W. H. Russell
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ISBN: 1107109760 1108068383 Year: 1857 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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The daughter of a Scottish soldier and a Jamaican herbalist, Mary Seacole (1805-81) gained recognition for her provision of care to British troops during the Crimean War. She had travelled widely in the Caribbean and Panama before venturing to England to volunteer as an army nurse in the Crimea. Although rebuffed by officials, an undeterred Seacole funded her own expedition, establishing the British Hotel near Balaclava to provide a refuge for wounded officers. Known affectionately as 'Mother Seacole' among the men, yet returning to England bankrupt at the end of hostilities, she had her plight highlighted in the press. First published in 1857, and reissued here in its 1858 printing, her autobiography was intended to share her story and restore to her some financial security. Probably dictated to her editor, who then polished the text for publication, this was the first autobiography by a black woman in Britain.


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Infamous bodies : early Black women's celebrity and the afterlives of rights
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ISBN: 1478007834 1478008326 1478009284 1478093803 Year: 2020 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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"Samantha Pinto explores how histories of and the ongoing fame of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures."--


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The Crimean War and its afterlife : making modern Britain
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ISBN: 1108906958 1108902332 1108842224 1108901719 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The mid-nineteenth century's Crimean War is frequently dismissed as an embarrassment, an event marred by blunders and an occasion better forgotten. In The Crimean War and its Afterlife Lara Kriegel sets out to rescue the Crimean War from the shadows. Kriegel offers a fresh account of the conflict and its afterlife: revisiting beloved figures like Florence Nightingale and hallowed events like the Charge of the Light Brigade, while also turning attention to newer worthies, including Mary Seacole. In this book a series of six case studies transport us from the mid-Victorian moment to the current day, focusing on the heroes, institutions, and values wrought out of the crucible of the war. Time and again, ordinary Britons looked to the war as a template for social formation and a lodestone for national belonging. With lucid prose and rich illustrations, this book vividly demonstrates the uncanny persistence of a Victorian war in the making of modern Britain.


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Children’s publishing and black britain, 1965-2015
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ISBN: 9781137579041 9781349954230 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Palgrave Macmillan

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This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community publishing and children’s literature prizes, the study investigates the motivation behind both independent and mainstream publishing firm decisions to produce books for a specifically Black British audience. Beginning with a consideration of early reading schemes that incorporated Black and Asian characters, the book continues with a history of one of the earliest presses to publish for children, Bogle L’Ouverture. Other chapters look at the influence of community-based and independent presses, the era of multiculturalism and anti-racism, the effect of racially-motivated violence on children’s publishing, and the dubious benefit of awards for Black British publishing. The volume will appeal to children’s literature scholars, librarians, teachers, education-policy makers and Black British historians.

Black and white women's travel narratives : antebellum explorations.
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ISBN: 081302711X Year: 2004 Publisher: Gainesville University press of Florida

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