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History. Black men and women: Part of British History. Mary Secole. Mary was born in 1805, on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. She first visited Britain as a young woman. Later she ran a hotel in Panama. Mary Seacole went to the Crimean War, to help British soldiers.
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History Black men and women: Part of British History
Mary Secole • Mary was born in 1805, on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. • She first visited Britain as a young woman. Later she ran a hotel in Panama. • Mary Seacole went to the Crimean War, to help British soldiers. • She nursed sick and wounded soldiers. • The soldiers called her 'Mother Seacole'. • After her adventures in the Crimean War (1854-1856), she lived in Britain. She died in London in 1881.
OlaudahEquiano(c.1745 - 1797) • Equiano was an African writer who was once a slave and who was part of the British movement to end the slave trade. He was an Abolitionist. • He was kidnapped when he was 11 and taken to America. • He was sold to a Royal Navy officer, Lieutenant Pascal, who renamed him 'GustavusVassa' after a 16th-century Swedish king. • Equiano travelled with Pascal for eight years. Equiano learned to read and write. • Pascal then sold Equiano to a ship captain who sold him again to a business man, Robert King. • While working (without pay) for Robert King, Equiano earned money by trading on the side. In three years, he had made enough money to buy his own freedom. • In 1789 he published his autobiography, 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of OlaudahEquiano or GustavusVassa, the African'. • It is one of the earliest books published by a black African writer. • Equiano died on 31 March 1797.
Andrew Watson Arthur Wharton (1857-1902) • Andrew Watson was the first black football player to play at an international level. • Andrew Watson played football for Scotland. • Andrew Watson was born in Guyana but moved to Scotland when he was very young. (1865-1930) Arthur Wharton was the first black footballer to be paid a wage for playing football anywhere in the world. He played in England. Arthur Wharton was born in Ghana. Wharton also set the first world record for 100 yards in 1886.
Septimius Severus(145 – 211) • Severus was Roman Emperor from 193 to 211. • Late in his reign he travelled to Britain where he was responsible for the strengthening of Hadrian’s Wall and for reoccupying the Antonine Wall. • Caesar Severus died in Britain in a place called Eboracum (York).
Walter Tull 1888 - 1918 John Archer1863 - 1932 • John Richard Archer was born in Liverpool in 1863. • His father was from Barbados. • His mother was Irish. • In 1913 he became Mayor of Battersea, Britain's first black mayor. • Walter Tull was the first commissioned black officer in the British Army. • He became an officer even though military law at the time excluded black people from being officers. • Walter Tull was killed in action in France during WWI.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor(1875 – 1912) • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an English composer. • He lived in London and Surrey in England. • His most famous composition is ‘Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast’. • He toured America and was even invited to the White House to meet President Theodore Roosevelt. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, his wife and children
Mary Princec. 1788 • Mary Prince was the first black woman to publish, in Britain, an account of her life. • She wrote about her life as a slave. • The book told how she had been subjected to relentless violence as well as sold by numerous ‘owners’. • The book was called ‘The History of Mary Prince – A West Indian Slave’. • A lot of people read her book and it helped to show the people of Britain the real horrors of slavery. No images survive of Mary Prince but this is the photo that has often been used to illustrate her story.
