Abstract
T he autobiograplhy Wonderfl Adventures ofMrs. Seacole in Many Lands ([1857] 1984) by Jamaican mixed-race "Creole" Mary Jane Grant Seacole (1805-81) reveals a great deal about the complex interplay in the nineteenth century between gendered mobility, black diaspora identity, colonial power, and transnational circularity.1 As a black entrepreneur and "doctress" who ran combination lodging houses and taverns in the Caribbean and Central America, Seacole relocated midcareer to Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-56) to service the needs of English soldiers on the battlefield. After losing her business when the war ended sooner than expected, she settled in England and attempted to recover from bankruptcy
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