title: 1. Mary Seacole’s West Indian Hospitality
abstract: Mary Seacole's West Indian HospitalityAn itinerant Jamaican entrepreneur and "doctress," the colored Creole Mary Jane Grant Seacole (1805-81) (figure 1.1) ran combination lodging houses and taverns throughout the Ca rib bean and Central Amer i ca during the first half of the nineteenth century. 1 While in Jamaica, Seacole had always counted British soldiers among her most esteemed clients: as a result, she relocated mid-career to Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-56) to be of ser vice to the B