Memoirs of Mrs. Seacole

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) is one of the earliest autobiographies of a mixed-race woman. In her autobiography, Seacole records her bloodline thus: «I am a Creole, and have good Scots blood coursing through my veins. My father was a soldier of an old Scottish family.» Legally, she was classified as a mulatto, a multiracial person with limited political rights. Seacole emphasises her personal vigour in her autobiography, distancing herself from the contemporary stereotype of the «lazy Creole», She was proud of her black ancestry, writing, «I have a few shades of deeper brown... Dalej