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Boris Johnson is a man renowned for his inflammatory remarks and casual racism.

Many commentators do not accept the view that Seacole's accomplishments were exaggerated.

"Rubbishing Mary Seacole is another move to hide the contributions of black people".

Jennings has suggested that the race of Seacole has played a part in the resistance by some of Nightingale's supporters (Gander, 2016).

Hoping to assist with nursing the wounded on the outbreak of the Crimean War, Seacole applied to the War Office to be included among the nursing contingent but was refused, so she travelled independently and set up her hotel and tended to the battlefield wounded.

Black British people are British citizens of either African descent or of Black African-Caribbean (sometimes called "Afro-Caribbean") background.

Schools of nursing in England were only set up after the Crimean war, the first being the (Florence) Nightingale Training School, in 1860 at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Seacole was arguably the first nurse practitioner.

Mary Jane Seacole was a British-Jamaican nurse, healer and businesswoman who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War.

Slavery is part and parcel of American popular culture but for more than 30 years the television mini-series Roots was the primary visual representation of the institution except for a handful of independent (and not widely known) films such as Haile Gerima’s Sankofa or the Brazilian Quilombo.