Mary Seacole: Pioneering black nurse and heroine 

Never let the truth get on the way of a good story.

Brilliant and interesting broadcast thankyou for Sharing

I have only read a good synopsis of Mary's autobiography, and can say that a lot of what is now being told of as her history is untrue at worst or twisted truth at best. Mary never claimed to be a Nurse or 'Doctoress" nor that her mother was, as is the recent narrative. In fact Physicians were invariably male, as women were thought too incompetent and weak to do such a job. Women as Nurses was also not a thing, for the same reasons. Florence Nightingale was the first recognised Nurse in the world. Women were thought too stupid and weak (or 'delicate'). Florence was much maligned for her capabilities in her own time especially for her insistence on cleanliness as Physicians, such they were, took great pride in old dirty blood being on their coats. People believed it a testimony that they were experienced. Not only the quacks of the time believed that but people in general did. Mary wasn't untruthful and apparently never claimed to be a Nurse or Doctress. Nor that her mother was. She also wrote that she opened and ran an hotel and restaurant, not for the ill and injured. It was her business venture and she only sometimes visited patients in the local hospital. She did supply her brews to people and later realised that her concoctions must have killed a lot of them, which she deeply regretted. However, that was the nature of herbal medicines and it still is to some extent. There are countless herbal and spice 'cures' on the Web but if you search the recommended plant and write 'dangers' after the word in the search bar it is frightening how many times a thing can have an even worse effect than the illness and even sometimes be deadly. Also, she used mercury and lead. That said, she wasn't the only one. It seems it was usual for the time. Such things did cure what they were treating and the bit later ill effects would appear to be unrelated. Laudnum was also heavily used and freely sold, and a lot of people became addicted and died from that too. It isn't possible to compare medical practice of even the time of Florence and Mary with later practice. It would be incorrect to describe any of them as Nurses. In fact, a lot of people who were patients of or worked with Florence seemed to find some justified faults with her, including that she was cold and aloof toward patients. Maybe a snob. Mary seems to have been more warm and personable. However, bigging them up helped with the efforts of the emancipation of women which whilst it was much needed, the plan wasn't really to help women at all but to have women vote and undermine men, to take mens jobs for much lower pay which would in due course cause mens pay to be far less, to 'encourage' mums of even babies to go out to work and therefore not be a constant figure and stable influence on the children and in the home, and the end goal to break up the family and turn the genders against each other. Why would those long powerful families do that? Because the family is the backbone of any society. Break down families and the women and children are more easily targeted, as men are less inclined to protect them after being disregarded by the women. Then society can be reshaped. Children get their ideas and characters from being brainwashed in schools, by TV and any other means available instead of parents and other elders in their families. The changes to society planned and being carried out are not good and healthy for us. The best way to find the truth of anything about the twisted histories we are now told is to try and buy the earliest edition books possible, particularly autobiographies (which also may be biased). Lies about history are almost always to divide and conquer. To make the group no longer favourable to those in control look bad. Years ago it was more popular to disparage Jews, and Blacks, Asians, whoever. Really it never matters too much which group, as long as the general populace can be signalled "Don't look here at us and what we are doing to you. Look at them there and what they did". There is always an agenda and it is never really for the long term betterment of the masses, even if it appears to be at first. E.G. When Blair became PM in 1997 (without my vote. I did not vote for any of them) most people were amazed at how quickly it appeared he improved the NHS. After all, it had clearly been falling apart for years. What few people knew was that it was at the expense of mental health services and other less obvious disciplines. Also only those at or near the top including within the NHS knew the 'improvements' were to make it attractive to buyers. It was sold lock, stock and barrel to (William's?) SERCO on the open stock market in 1998. Now, it's various component authorities are listed on Dun & Bradstreet. The USA branch, not the branch in England. So it appears to have been broken up and sold on piecemeal. There so much more I write as examples but too much for here. What is made to look good for us is in reality very much to the detriment of ourselves, our children and theirs ad infinitum. Lesson to be learned; never trust the official or popular narrative whether it is about history, science, politics or anything. Always research for yourselves as far as you can. Even then you may not find the whole truth

Interesting how they chose not to read out Seacole’s own racist comments from her book?

Too many speciously toxic comments from people who have not read up on their history. Like seriously some of these comments sound like they skimmed Wikipedia for controversy and called it a day

Black people has truly loved our country's, even when those country's hasn't always loved us back😔😔

The only truth here is her name. This video is fiction. Seacole wasn't a nurse.

It's almost comical now

This isn’t history but propaganda and yet they teach this

Its funny because Mary Seacole isn't even black her father was WHITE Scottish. So just as much white as black.