Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many LandsA far cry from the nineteenth century slave narrative tradition, this book, written in 1857, is a special kind of success story. With delightful urbanity and wit, Mary Seacole, a free born Jamaican Creole, recounts her childhood as a daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black boarding house keeper, her years as a storekeeper in a Central American frontier town, and her role as a battlefield 'doctress' to British troops in the Crimean War.