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Mary Seacole - I: A Bold Front to Fortune - Extra History (Patreon)

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2016-01-08 19:06:35
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Jamaican-born Mary Seacole faced down challenge after challenge on her path to becoming a famed Crimean War nurse.

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Mary Seacole - I: A Bold Front to Fortune - Extra History

Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC --- (Episode details below) Watch the Broad Street Pump series on cholera! http://bit.ly/1NRSAsL Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator ____________ Mary Seacole treated soldiers during the Crimean War - but she took a long path to get there. She grew up in Jamaica, the daughter of a local hotel owner and a Scottish soldier. She admired her doctress mother and wanted to be like her, but she also yearned to travel and see the world. In 1821 she accepted a relative's invitation to visit London, and turned herself from a tourist to a businesswoman by importing Jamaican food preserves. She traveled with her business for several years before returning home to Jamaica, where she married a white man named Edwin Seacole and started a general store. Their venture failed, and disaster struck: fire destroyed most of Kingstown, and both Mary's husband and her mother died in 1843. Mary survived and rebuilt the hotel, but she set out to start a new life in Panama and was immediately greeted by a cholera epidemic. She helped contain it, and earned a reputation that helped her start her own business across the street from her half-brother's. When word reached her that the Crimean War back in Europe needed nurses, she left her business behind and went to sign up. Both the War Office and Florence Nightingale's expedition rejected her, but Mary determined to find her own way there. ____________ ♫ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♫ Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/1MYduAW *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1LBy9zh

Comments

Zoe Alleyne

A woman, a woman, finally a woman! And a woman of colour! Thank you!!

Jane

Jamaica me tense

Hasan Mahmood

Excellent episode. Can't wait for the next one.

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>>1186308

I feel a little sheepish about the fact that it's taken so long, but yes, we were aware that Theodora didn't get enough playtime in her shared series to really fulfill this need! We'd love to do better.

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>>1186349

Me either! Next time we get to see her reach the Crimean War, which is the part of her life she's most famous for!

Stephen

Awesome to see this series. Also nice to see stuff written by Soraya rather than James for a change.

William Icenrose

See, this is why I love this series - finding out about total badasses from bygone eras of history. I have much reading to do about Mary Seacole now!

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>>1186520

You'll be happy to know that her autobiography is a free classic with an ebook version on Amazon!

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>>1186507

You noticed! <3 James and Dan were very supportive of me giving this a try. Pretty excited to see it come out now!

Zoe Alleyne
>>1186308

I know I was personally leaving lots of comments about it, but it's only because I feel that when we talk about "history" we often default to men, and "women's history" it it's own niche. I'm glad this video exists and hopefully she won't be the token woman of the series, because there are so many interesting women in history. Thank you!

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>>1186308

Trust me, we don't want our series to be only about men, either. In the same way that we're trying to cover different types of history (medicine, economics, war) and different geographical periods (Africa, Asia, Europe), we want this to be about HISTORY - everyone's history, and as much of it as we can get!

Sean Sarff

As I'm writing this I can already say that the first words out of my mouth watching this episode were "Ugh...another story about someone that fate just dumps on." But, after I said that I realized, that's what makes these people giants. John Snow, Admiral Yi and now Mary Seacole are giants of history. But it's not just because of the things that they do, it's the things that happened to them that made them rise above when others would have given up. And it's so easy for people to just gloss over the difficult parts of their lives and shine the light on only their accomplishments. While I can't say that I won't ever stop that earlier thought from being uttered when I see it happen, I can honestly say it'll be followed by "Just how bad ass is this guy/girl gonna be inspite of all these set backs." So thank you Extra Credits. Also, I love how you guys have been hiding the named character's initials lately. Those are some nifty earrings Mary is sporting.

Amy Reynolds

Good for you, Soraya!!! It's a beautifully written piece of work and I'm loving it! (P.S. Again with the almost animation-speed art, ftw!!!) And loving those M S earrings by the way. :D

AV

Also really happy to see a story about a woman! And this is great. I'm very excited for the next video. And for this to go up on the channel so I can link all my friends (=

Stephen
>>1186507

To be fair, you did tell me by e-mail this two part series was coming and that you were writing it ;)

Martin Ockovsky

Love her earrings. Great work as always!

Kyle Clark

Hopefully the Crimean War will get its own series one of these days. Great episode!

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>>1186507

Oh, no fair! Gmail lists your name as something very different from "Stephen," so that's how I remembered you. ;)

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>>1186967

I love that so many people are enjoying her earrings as much as I did! That was a really nice touch from Lil.

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>>1187078

It still can if it wins a vote! Hopefully seeing someone famous for her role in the war will get more people curious to learn more of the story.

Ashley Lau

Oh, Mary Seacole! :O I think I saw an episode about her on Horrible Histories! Can't wait to see what you all have in store for us. XD

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>>1187219

I hadn't seen that before! Cute show, although I do wish they hadn't pitted Florence Nightengale and Mary Seacole against each other in their skit. Two wonderfully accomplished women can exist in the same time and space without either one taking away from the other's achievements!

Stephen
>>1187219

The Mary Seacole song is the better sketch for her, imo, than the White Lie sketch. However... While I agree with you, whenever anyone seems to suggest acknowledging Seacole int he UK, it always seems to draw objections from Nightengale fans who think that acknowledging any other nurse from that period is taking attention away from Nightengale that should rightfully be hers. It's downright bizarre. (I'd also suggest looking up the Cleopatra song and remembering while listening to it that this is a show aimed at 10 year olds. Same goes for the Dick Turpin song, come to thing of it, for very different reasons [Seriously, ok, I agree that Stand and Deliver is the right song to parody for Dick Turpin but... How many 8-10 year olds circa the early 2010s are going to be familiar with the source material of the parody?])

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>>1187219

Yeah, I saw that sentiment from several quarters while researching this mini series. I made a point of not contrasting the two of them in this series, for the reason above! And thanks for the tips, and the new silly history show, both of you. ;)

Amy Reynolds
>>1186672

OH MY GOSH I just got the joke about how she "sometimes looked down her nose" at others and Lil has her put up a little prosthetic nose (since the bean people don't have noses!) so she can look down it!!!!! DYING OF JOY.

Todd Carter

Great start of a series. I look forward to hearing more. Btw, any chance we could have a series on the Crimean war? I just realized watching this that it's a gap in my knowledge!

Arturo Gutierrez

Yay, new series! :D (by the way, is there some site or blog post that says which episode topics are coming next?)

Aaron Voigt

So stoked for the next episode! I'm studying nursing now, and I was definitely frustrated that the Nightingale/Seacole feud wasn't discussed in more depth. Thanks for shedding more light on the story EH!

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>>1190087

I try to list them every time we have a new vote coming up, but yeah, I need to get something more permanent. Right now, after the Mary Seacole mini series, we're looking at: Justinian & Theodora --> Suleiman the Magnificent --> Early Christian Heresies And the next vote is gonna be really soon!

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>>1190153

Eep! I don't want to make it out to be a feud between the two of them - they met, but never worked together and certainly not against each other. Both are deserving of having more light shed on their accomplishments, though, so we're happy we have the chance to talk about Mary's life right now!

KvaGram

I like her extreme determination. Quite inspiring actually.

Øyvind Wallentinsen

I love these "unsung heroes" series! You discuss things we've heard about, like the Crimean War and cholera, but you introduce us to people we've never heard of, and probably should know more about. Great stuff!

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>>1190407

I thought long and hard before deciding not to make the post about her an Undertale reference. "Seeing Mary Seacole succeed through many challenges fills you with determination..."

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>>1190497

We try to get a nice mix of stuff that's taught in schools (because that gives teachers more resources!) and stuff that a lot of people won't have heard about (because that gets more people interested in history!). :)

KvaGram
>>1190407

I consider that a missed opportunity that you just now hit.

Stephen
>>1190497

On the plus side, I believe that Mary Seacole survived on the UK national curriculum despite attempts to get her off of it by the British government, so there is the possibility that this two parter could be used in British schools... Unfortunately remaining 'optional' (as in 'can be taught if the teacher has time, not required to be taught')

Parker

Did Lil illustrate this? I'm just curious because she put a vale over here face in the John Snow series and if this is her she gave herself a mustache. Nice creativity if this is you Lil!

Parker
>>1190087

I'm actually quite interested in how you'll make early Christian herecies. It seems more for a topic for a mini-series than a full 6 weeks series.