Mary Seacole stood over a dying man comforting him in his final moments and wondered, how did she get here. Starting her journey with her with her husband, Edwin Seacole, they had run a mining company with Mary helping her mother and her hotel. Everything was fine for Mary until both her husband and mother died. She pressed on after a period of grief and made a hotel in Jamaica called “The English Hotel”, where she housed guests and British military personnel. There she helped the sickly when an outbreak of cholera hit Jamaica. Then, in 1854, war broke out in the Crimean Peninsula, and helped was sought after. Mary left Jamaica and took a ship load of tea and other niceties with her on her journey to the Crimean Peninsula. As soon as she arrived
