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The question of commercial provision for accommodation for visitors to Jamaica was addressed on an official level in the 1880s with the impending International Exhibition which Jamaica hosted in 1891. It was believed at the time that there would not be enough places offering acceptable services to visitors.
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Kerr, P.A. (1995). Victims or Strategists?. In: Shepherd, V., Brereton, B., Bailey, B. (eds) Engendering History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07302-0_11
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