I just received Professor Matthew J. Smiths new and insightful book on Haiti and Jamaica (University of North Carolina Press, 2014/412 pages). It is a superb historiographical analysis--which traces the relationship between the two countries to the nineteenth-century--that details the intimate connections that illuminate the conjoined histories of both places after slavery. The frequent movement of people between Haiti and Jamaica in the decades following emancipation in the British Caribbean brought the countries into closer contact and influenced discourse about the postemancipation future of the region. In the stories and genealogies of exiles and politicians, abolitionists and diplomats, laborers and merchants--and mothers, fathers, and children--Smith recognizes the significance of nineteenth-century Haiti to regional development. What a fine historian! What a fine historical study! We are going to try to see if we can interview Prof. Smith about his new work....on Haiti: Then and Now.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:28:10 +0000
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