The statue of slave-trader Edward Colston was torn down by protesters recently. It was almost like a Berlin wall moment. David Harewood, In the Shadow of Mary Seacole, ITV 2022
This statue of pioneering black nurse Mary Seacole … in south London … despite much opposition … A sign of things to come? ibid.
A Jamaican woman who did something quite extraordinary over 160 years ago … who paid her own way to the frontline of the Crimean War in 1855 and helped wounded soldiers just off the battlefield. ibid.
Now the enormous bronze statue is finally ready to be unveilled … ibid.
‘She brightened the lives of the people around her. Especially soldiers who were often sick and dying.’ ibid. expert