Liberty, Fraternity, Exile

Matthew J. Smith, senior lecturer in history at the University of West Indies at Mona, is author of Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957.
For more information about Matthew J. Smith, visit the Author Page.

“Offer[s] a fresh transnational perspective on regional ruling classes and elites, hitherto largely ignored.”--American Historical Review

"Well-researched and beautifully written Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation, reveals the extent to which the Atlantic must also be interpreted from a regional perspective. . . . Reveals how imperial, national and linguistic boundaries faded as a trans-Caribbean community emerged and came to define the region.”--Journal of Latin American Studies

“A richly documented, meticulously researched, and well-written study which advances our understanding of Haiti and Jamaica in the Victorian era, and takes a refreshingly original approach to the region’s history.”--New West Indian Guide

"Matthew Smith's superb book is a model and argument for thinking and writing differently about Caribbean history through its insistence on the interpenetration and co-construction of different areas within the region. The very human stories of journeys and exiles are a lovely, and gripping, part of the study."--Laurent Dubois, Duke University

"A valuable contribution to the historiographies of Haiti, Jamaica, and the links between them, Liberty, Fraternity, Exile takes seriously the injunctions to historians that are routinely made but rarely followed: to be transnational in approach, to cross linguistic and imperial boundaries. Smith shows convincingly that relationships across the Caribbean Sea need to be taken at least as seriously as those across the Atlantic Ocean."--Diana Paton, Newcastle University

Read: Interview with the author at thepublicarchive.com.