Seacole was proud of her Scottish ancestry and called herself a Creole,[14] a term that was commonly used in a racially neutral sense or to refer to the children of white settlers.[17] In her autobiography, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole, she 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."[13][18] Legally, she was classified as a mulatto, a multiracial person with limited political rights;[19] Robinson speculates that she may technically have been a quadroon.[20] Seacoleemphasises her personal vigour in her autobiography, distancing herself from the contemporary stereotype of the "lazy Creole",[14][21][22] She was proud of her black ancestry, writing, "I have a few shades of deeper brown upon my skin which shows me related—and I am proud of the relationship—to those poor mortals whom you once held enslaved, and whose bodies America still owns."[23]