She travelled a remarkable amount
Travel was Mary's one and only true love. Women didn't typically travel extensively at the time, but Mary did. She actually traveled to England twice as a teenager, staying there for a total of three years.
She was also quite a successful businesswoman. Mary spent a year living with family in London in 1821, and before returning to Kingston in 1823, she took a trip around the Caribbean, stopping in Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas.
A courageous explorer of the 19th century, Mary Seacole. She was a mixed-race Jamaican woman who received the Order of Merit from the Jamaican government posthumously. In the UK, she was honored as a "Black Briton." Seacole wrote a book based on her experiences in the Crimean War, where she managed a store and catering services for officers, and her adventures in Panama, where she maintained a store for men traveling by land to the California Gold Rush.
Mary traveled to Cruces, Panama, in 1853, where her brother owned a hostel and a shop. There, Mary built a store selling food and supplies to gold miners and carried on with her medical practice, attending to patients with cholera and other tropical illnesses like yellow fever.
