Caribbean Royals: Making Digital Stories of Jamaican Slavery

Presented by the Department of History and the Centre for Caribbean Studies.

Matthew J. Smith is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery. His research is pan-Caribbean in scope with special interest in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century histories of Haiti and Jamaica. Among his current research projects is a study of the representations and legacies of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica in 1865, and a social history of Jamaican popular music since the 1950s.