Mary Seacole - Mother Seacole in the Crimea - Extra History - Part 2
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- 📜 Mary Seacole - Part 2 - Extra History
Unable to find any official sponsors, Mary Seacole decided to send herself to the Crimea. She recruited her husband's cousin, a fellow business person, and the two of them set off for the war zone. Unlike London, where she'd met a chilly reception, Mary's help was welcomed by the overworked doctors and suffering soldiers. She built a new version of her British Hotel and invited officers to dine or shop there, using their money to buy medical supplies and creature comforts for the poorer soldiers. She had set herself up next to the army camp, and during battles she helped provide emergency care. But when at last the city of Sevastopol fell, Mary's medical services were no longer in much demand. She enjoyed a few months of prosperity as the soldiers celebrated their newfound time off, but in March of 1856, a treaty was signed and troops began returning home. Many of them left unpaid debts, and Mary could no longer sell her supplies, so she and her business partner were forced to return home to London and declare bankruptcy. When that news got out, the soldiers she'd cared for rallied to her aid, donating money to help pay her debts. Although Mary tried to continue serving soldiers in warzones, the government never recognized her and in the end, only her homeland of Jamaica remembered her contributions after her death. In the 2000s, her story came back to light in the United Kingdom and she was recognized in 2004 as the Greatest Black Briton.
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Wow. My eyes got legit watery at the end there. Dem feelz.
+zeroangelmk1 you too?
+zeroangelmk1 LEGIT THO, I'M STILL TRYING NOT TO CRY
+zeroangelmk1 Bless your strength. I cried like a baby!
+zeroangelmk1 It was wo cute and yet so unfair ! I couldn't keep it in^^
+zeroangelmk1 I cried too. Turn on the waterworks for full.
god damn this girl needs a monument. preferably one of her kneeling down holding the hand of a dying solider on his back with a face that looks like she's giving him sass for going and getting himself shot.
She has a statue in London you know
+Lectar117 Central London too, so tourists can learn her name too.
+Jimmy Yang Has it actually been put up? All I could find googling was proposals.
order of merit too. that was something you wont give to someone else
dude she was like 76 ......call her mother
God bless Mary Seacole, what a hero. Thank you for sharing her story.
Christ, some people are just amazing huh.
Someone give that lady a movie
+paualamar Yeah, I mean that was goddamn touching.
+paualamar actually yeah, i could easily see this as a movie.
+paualamar
Hopefully, a movie that doesn't butcher her story or remold the message of it all.
“Mother, get down!”
“You’re alright now, Mother, it didn’t hit”
Didn’t think I’d feel my heart melting in a war story but here we are
Same ;-;
Sameeeeeee
Mary Seacole
Same-
Apparently you haven’t heard many war stories. They’re full of the extremes of human emotions because they are full of the extremes of human conditions
Mary Seacole had a very Patch Adams approach, very holistic. To her, you don’t just treat the disease or ailment, you treat the person as a whole. You listen to their dreams, their stories, make them smile, all that. It’s a tragedy that we never learn about her. This strong, incredible woman who knew where to draw the line and where to run right through it. She treated anyone and everyone, she ran multiple businesses, she stayed focused and determined through dark days, and she still remained kind. She is a hero and darn it I wish there was a movie about her.
Between this and John Snow, I love this series!
I hate how so many people reduce human history to wars and battles, when there is so many more interesting things that happened. Keep up the fantastic work, folks!
I agree, but the history behind wars is sometimes what brings some of these people to light, and, also, war history is very interesting as well
Well it’s because everything was war and battles but there was other things
I'm English and we definitely got taught about Mary Seacole, and Florence nightingale. Of course not in this depth. Maybe they don't teach it in America?
OMG YASS THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT, I FEEL THE SAME WAY
I hope we learn about her more soon, she was, and by every account, is a badass
May she live in the afterlife and smile with her sons, knowing shes beginning to be remembered
5:50 Please start actually bandaging my arm and not the air, Mother.
+Vavakx Nonexus their arms are invisible. lol
This
+Vavakx Nonexus "Holy crap...Is MY AIR BLEEDING?!"
+Aegix Drakan I think it might be, QUICK, CALL MOM
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At least she wasn't being constantly being thrown under the bus like a certain korean admiral...
+LT Gen Klink uh....Walpole?
+LT Gen Klink OW
+AleXandrYuZ Yeeeees?
uh...nevermind...
+LT Gen Klink Well she kind of was by the British government, but whatever...
Damn. I woudn't have known about her if you guys wouldn't have told. History reminds us of bloody wars and makes us remember the names of the crazed leaders that sparked them, rather than people who give a glimmer of hope to us in the darkest of our times.
Same
I prefer both actually
Well said.
It's complete and utter nonsense, Mary Seacole was a restaurateur she was never a nurse, she came to London to register a claim her and her brother had on a goldmine, her mother owned a restaurant in Jamaica and knew the trade, she ran out of money in London and saw an opportunity to open a restaurant in Crimea, in those days people would go out to view battles from the hillside, this is the closest she ever got while serving food and drinks to people watching, she was never a nurse.
This made my heart skip a few beats and feel, alive today. Maybe I can make it, if Mary could :)
If Mother could, you can, don't give up!
Mary Seacole will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.
You better believe shes right there in Valhalla taking care of her sons just as she did those years ago.
+Christian Neihart and every day shall be a lovely day!!!
Mary is awaited in Valhalla!!!
+Christian Newhart *gives everybody silver food mist cans*
Robert Walpole * Speeds down road,Sprays mouth*
"WITNESSS!!!"
*gets pulled over* " Shit!!"
Cop: " The hell kinda party you speeding to?!"
"Valhalla Mutherfucker!"
Cop: "Well tell Odin to pay this ticket."
Well, I cried.
+Kieron George I did my best to hold it in.
:,)
Me too
My neighbors are cutting giant onions again, damn onions :(
Can you imagine if they actually make a good Hollywood movie about her!
This episode actually managed to make me cry a little. Wow.
I think this episode shows how Extra Credits' people-focused approach to history really works.
7 years later, I'm crying while watching this. It's so sad that history forgot her. I'm glad Extra Credits covered her.
Yeeah here i am, years later crying all over again haha
-Over the ages there have been many hero’s
-But few are remembered
-Because, for all their work and all that they have achieved
-In time even the greatest legacy’s will be wiped away
-But even if the hero’s themselves are forgotten and the paths they tread disappeared
-Their influence will live on in the people they helped and those helped by them
-Because you have to believe that kindness will grow
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I do not know if this is any good but after watching this video i thought this up
Anyway i more or less wanted to say, Thank you Mother Seacole
+TheRWS96 Couldn't put it any better.
+TheRWS96 What is the point of separating your point into lines? I agree, but why make it a poem (if you can call it that)?
i thought it sounded nice and if you do not separate the lines it will be read differently.
i could also have used a dot but it looks better like this
+TheRWS96 While i agree, i think thanking Seacole goes kind of against that. There are so many heroes who are simply forgotten, even more so than Seacole (who is actually semi-famous nowadays).
true, makes me think.
still i am happy that there are (have been) so manny hero's that we can not remember all of them, even if it's sad that we don't
Weirdest thing about this to me? I played through three whole campaigns of a tabletop RPG as Mary Seacole in everything but name. Black, wartime nurse, built, owned and ran care centers in three different cities at one time or another, never gave up her cheerfully maternal disposition, etc. Really wish I'd known who she was before I made the character.
What RPG would that be?
I’m guessing dnd/pathfinder. Those two being the most common Table top RPGs (in the states at least)
I actually was thinking of building a character for The Shackles Module in Pathfinder based of her. Where she would have her hotel on one of the islands and any pirate that enters captain or crew are called sons and daughters.
I wish we could go back to her in her dying moments, and tell her,
"You are remembered". To console her and care for her just as she did so many others. Its what she deserves.
This is amazingly uplifting and especially empowering for a young woman coming into her own. Thank you for bringing this amazing role model into the light. I’m going to share this with a ton of people I know who could use the inspiration and motivation this stirred in me! ^-^
Mary Seacole sent herself to the Crimean War, believing that if she could be of any help, it would be worth any risk.
+Extra Credits How many others are there whose stories have been lost to time, ignorance, or neglect?
Too many, I'd say.
+Extra Credits This was awesome! Can we get another one?
+MagnuMagnus that's very true. it's not the acts of kindness, more the promotion after. For example, Florence Nightingale was apparently not very good at what she did, but her name is extremely well known.
+MagnuMagnus you sound very smart
+Extra Credits This was yet another incredible video. I love hearing the unsung heroes of history. I'm looking forward to seeing you at Magfest next month!
RIP in peace mother.
Ramon Reyes rip means rest in peace
Rest in peace on peace mother?
Rest in peace in peace? What?
What
This is a trainwreck
Thank you, Mary Seacole, for being the quiet, yet often very loud, hero that you were. We will remember you!
Queen! Heroine! Mother! May she never again be forgotten!
I was not prepared for the emotional ending...
Such a strange bittersweetness of mixed profound sadness and joy...
Now THAT'S a woman! Bold, intelligent, gentle, and strong. I would have tripped over myself to get with her - colour barriers be damned!
god bless chocolate
@@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062 MILK chocolate! :)
@@christobanistan8887 UUUUH! YOU. YOU MONSTER!
Bruh, I bet she was hot 🤣
@@JiggyMiggytv is the main message u took away from this that she was hot, if so that's messed up
5:20 I loved that
"Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again!... Unless you are Mary Seacole, you can come in"
we need to shoot her too!
are you stupid? thats our mother bringing us pies you moron!
@@marxel4444 the soldier:" wait what she brings us pie!?
Soldier: OF COURSE SHE DID! NOW HOLD
@@random_commenter6904 soldier:" YES SIR!"
It helps to realize that Mary was no a young woman during the Crimean War. She was at least in her 50s by that time or close to them. Yet she spent so much time and energy running back and forth in the war zone treating soldiers and running her business. A true paragon of this and her age. She and Yolande of Aragon are my two favorite historical figures.
PS Yolande of Aragon is another person deserving of an Extra History lesson ;)
well no shame in admiting it... I cried a lot, great video, INCREDIBLE WOMAN... thank you kindly for this great story. Let us never again forget such important people like this!!!
I am proud, filled with pride, in awe, saddened and grateful all at once. Thanks for educating me and others about this tenacious woman.
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wow wow wow wut
Been waiting for this for 4 months.
Woot.
+Extra Credits Can you guys tell the tale of the badass jack churhill?
+The Wolf the one who used a sword, a longbow and bagpipes in WW2 ?
+Extra Credits Thank you, a friend of my who study on nursery had frustrated over the event that took place around the world,she suffer from a minor depressives but she able hold herself very well.your history review John Snow and Mary Seacole had spark a new light for her to continue her study.i from Malaysian,currently 4.3+am. she make me to inform her as soon that a new episode on late Mary how ever late it is.and i can see the spark on her eye lit after the video. hope you able continue your history review more on this unsung hero.
Though I find it much more thrilling when you take a look at a bigger topic, these small ones really get to me, especially when you make them feel like how big they should be.
This one... it was good, man. Thank you guys for taking stories people should know, and bringing them to the light.
Wow, yet another amazing story, once lost, but now rescued from the depths of history.
Excellent work as always, guys. I love this series.
Absolutely wonderful. Although it was much shorter than usual, I'm still glad this was done. Thankyou.
+Jeffman12 I'm just as happy with these short ones as the much larger five or six part ones. It helps to shine a light on a small part of history.
I hope you realize this series is the only thing that brings me to tears.
i really hope more people will get to know her. Her story is just heart moving and wonderful!!
This was a short series but I really liked it.
Anyone else find it darkly humorous that Cholera has actually become a recurring character on the show? Like, you can visually recognize the Cholera character and you just want to shake your fist at it.
Damn you, Cholera! You'll get yours! Oh yes. One day, when you least expect it, the people you tormented will get around to building a vast network of pipes and drains to dispose of waste water and stop disposing of excrement in the street. On that day, you'll get yours!!
i just hope future generations will look at cancer, the way we look at cholera now, an old adverts that has been conquered
They showed caricatures of other diseases, like typhoid. I believe we'll be seeing them soon.
Dysentery is the big one. Surprised cholera is a bigger player so far since, historically, dysentery was a bigger threat for a longer period.
IWearTimepants It’s like seeing a flashback with a villain you already know gets killed
Just you wait, John Snow will figure you out!
😂 10/10
3:36 made me a happy a little just the fact that he said those words and still helped her was just great thing during that era
This legitimately made me cry it’s such a beautiful story
Wow, what an amazing and wholesome story. I'm so glad she could be rescued from the sands of time. She has really inspired me, if only for the night.
You manage to make me sad about nameless soldiers that died long ago, good job and keep on making amazing content
"She took care of her sons in the face of adversity, and in the twilight of her life, her sons would take care of her."
Fantastic couple of episodes! My favourite part of Extra History is highlighting stories from humankind's past that I'd likely never have known about otherwise. Keep up the fantastic work everyone :)
6:02 I teared up. I was very surprised at how much that scene affected me. Thanks for bringing history so close to home!
Dang. This was a short series, but it's one of my faves so far. Every chapter in this woman's life was fascinating and extraordinary.
This is one of the most touching stories I've encountered in a while. Thanks so much Extra Credits for telling it.
Actions of the past untold, echoing across the world.
Feats of strength incurred, in silence but still heard.
So many heroes left behind in the cold, let their voices be heard, let their stories be told.
Great episode as always, thanks for making this.
I shed some tears around the end. What a truly courageous, exemplary life, full of compassion and grit.
i almost cried
how dare you, dan.
you almost made me cry.
Almost? I actually cried
It’s content like this that gives me hope for my children’s futures ! Thank you for add meaningful and educational information for the youth and for grown adults! Amazing channel!!!!
you ain't gonna see Mary in an Assassin's Creed game.
Screed? Shit, she deserves her own game. I'd play the hell out of a resource management/shopkeeping simulator called "Mary Seacole's Crimean Hotel".
+Centimeterworm You could even combine that with a first-person simulation of her time as a medic. Or an RPG part about finding supplies along the way or tracking down people she needs to talk to in London. Lots of potential here.
+DrakeVagabond I'm not so sure. If they make an Assassin's Creed game that takes place in the Crimean war she might very well be one of the more important supporting characters, maybe even with ties to the assassins as an informant.
+Centimeterworm Ok, I'm noting that one down in my 'Game inspiration file' because that sounds incredible!
Firenter
Please do! Let me know when you get published!
I was fully unaware of Mother Seacole until you put this forward. I found your telling of her story both fascinating and heartwarming. I absoloutely love this series, and i hope to see many more Installments
I had never heard of Mary Seacole before this and I really enjoyed watching both episodes. They were very informative.
The life of a Mercy main
I'm so sad that this comment is underrated
Liked
Can't wait to see Justinian next week!
Also I'd like to see some more of these small series's.
They help shed light on people you may not have heard of.
It's great that you make these videos of forgotten events and individuals. Mary didn't deserve to be erased from history.
I'm literally crying right now. The end is just beautiful.
Thank you for bringing this amazing piece of history to our knowledge. The most beautiful and emotional video about history that I have seen in a long time. Congratulations.
*crying* oh my god what a great story of a Legend , God Bless you Mary Seacole . 😭😭😭😭
What an absolutely beautiful story about an absolutely beautiful person. One can only hope to some day be as kind, selfless and giving as her. What an insipiration, thank you so much for bringing this story. Manly tears were shed.
I never cry, but this has me on the edge. I have goosebumps all over.
My #1Source of extra history, just helping me spark interests, and confirming/re-evaluating my current knowledge. Thank you extra credits. Thank you.
omg I freakin love Mary Seacole! She's just an awesome woman who should really be mentioned more in history books.
Extra Credits did where none of my history teachers succeeded...
Made me cry
A really awesome episode and a tribute to an awesome person. Thanks for introducing me to Mary
John Snow, Mary Seacole... spoiler alert : Justinian would have needed people like that.
Would've helped against that plague...
Yep.
How are the crusades going?
This is why I love this series... you guys have taken stories that I've never heard of and brought them to light. Thank you for telling her story.
I can believe someone that GOOD actually could have existed.
Good and Evil are just questions of view and only exist in the human mind.
When I was little I had a picture book about Mary Seacole. I spent countless afternoons acting out her life using my Barbies. She has inspired me and helped make me the strong woman I am. Thank you for telling her story. She was an incredible woman who is too often forgotten.
Fiction's got nothing on history
what do you mean
He means that fiction is trying to get realistic heros, but history gets it by default. For instance in every war there was on this planet there are always gonna be good people helping people out, whether they was just fighting each other or they're allies, WW1 they had a football match.
Zenith Wills fiction just attempts to get realistic heroes. History gets *even better ones that seem fictional* .
Potato i think he meant that fiction is nothing compared to history. Since fiction is supposed to be a recreation for most people rather than education.
Now make a movie of this story!
What an amazing story. A display of true selflessness and humanity in the worst conditions possible. It saddens me that I hadn't heard of her before but now that I do know it inspires me to do all that I can as a person and especially as a fellow woman. Thank you for bringing her story to light.
a couple of drops came from my eyes.
Love from Finland/Estonia.
Thank you for this uplifting story. Rest in peace, Mary.
What a lovely lady. Too bad her name got forgotten for a while.
Thank you for highlighting some of the truly wonderful and kind people who've fought so hard to make our world a better place to live.
"Who lives who dies who tells your Story?"
Seriously...would love for that Hamilton guy to take a crack at a Seacole Musical
Wow... wish I had that Bravery and the willingness to help all like she did. I'm glad you brought her into the light. She shouldn't have been forgotten in the first place.
extra history: Bismarck
+hermanPla Glorious Kleindeutschland! Leave the Austrians to their Balkan nonsense!
+Broodrooster24 Short version: Bismarck was a genius in time where everyone else with political power was a complete idiot.
+goff0103 i think no one cares about that, because the french hate everything that is german
+goff0103 i think no one cares about that, because the french hate everything that is german
the guy everybody likes
Except the Saarland
Mary Seacole deserves to be remembered and I will do so. Thank you for highlighting Ms Seacole and her story...........
You know nothing people who forget her!
+Fezdalek Abrasion Please, for the love of god, don’t make that a meme here.
+Jeremy Saklad I already is. Deal with it.
YOU KNOW NOTHING FEZDALEK ABRAIAN.
Zenith Wills Leave me out of this!
Beautiful story. I like how you can bring into light some parts of history that are rarely mentioned in schools.
That bit at the end with the person jumping out of the burning building with a book actually happened at the British Museum of natural history.
Listening to these stories are such a thrill for me and I don't know why I love this Chanel because I love knowledge and history
Mary Seacole. Woman of medicine, wanderlust, and bravery. If only there were more like her perhaps we as people would be thriving much more than now... May she know that her death however was not in vain after all she helped during the war like an actual field medic. May she rest in peace. And be remembered
Thank you, EC crew, for bringing a light to the story of Mary Seacole; a woman I could only dream of aspiring to be more like. The world would be a much better place if saints like her were more widely known. It just goes to show the true love and compassion a humanbeing is capable of - even in the darkest times, there are those whos light shines the brightest.
+thewallsown Why can't you be like her?
God bless Mary seacole, we should all remember her.
Thank you. To the whole team. These have become my favorite part of the show.
Mary Seacole: So, have I fulfilled it? Am I a hero to people's eyes?
The Soldiers: No
Mary Seacole: Why?
The Soldiers: You're a legend
Thank you guys. Storys like this is what makes me want to try harder. To do better for myself and others. Keep up the good work
You were a legend, Mother Secole.
I actually got a tear in my eye when the soldiers heard about her financial troubles and sent in donations to help her. Just such an amazing act of human kinship and she was literally the reason some of them survived that war. I really think that people like her who have been forgotten to history because of the color of their skin should be remembered and we should use our platforms now to praise them for their work. I love how you guys did just that i n EH. I love this channel so much. Not only am I a HUGE ffan of history but I can binge watch your videos and learn things that I never even heard about. You really rock! I am grateful for the knowledge. KEEP IT UP! YOUR CONTENT IS MAKING AN IMPACT!
I feel like you guys could do a wonderful job of dealing with the rise and fall of the Wiemar Republic. Even taking a fairly advanced European history at a great school here in the states, the best we got was "WWI, economic collapse, something something, BOOM, Nazi Germany". From doing a little digging I feel like it's a rich period of history that so few people really know a lot about.
This is absolutely amazing. Now I know what I'm going to bingewatch for a few hours. Extra History!
She was in my year 8 history textbook!!
This one always has me tearing up
Bless Mary Seacole, what a woman!
What a great story, it is nice to hear in history that such great people existed.
She reminds me of my Nan(that's what Irish sometimes call grandmothers)
I think nan is fairly universal in the british isles
Thank you for showing me such a hero
MARY WAS BADDASS AND YOU CANT TELL ME OTHER WISEE
BADASS MOTHA SEACOLE!
Yes she was!
I repeat, there is something about this Mary. She had an extra special character. Thank again, Extra Credits, for retelling her story so wonderfully. She is one of my favourite heroes and I love the way you have told her story. As a Jamaican myself, I feel personally inspired by her. With this enjoyable retelling of Mary Seacole's story others can be inspired too.
I love this so much. I wonder sadly how many Mother Seacole's we don't hear about. She's a hero......
Also colera I have learned to hate even more...
These types of people are so easily forgotten but they did a lot
Sometimes even the smallest of things can make a big change
Smile and that smile may brighten someone’s day.
Those small things will change the world