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Brooke Newman: Associate Professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University & Author of "A Dark Inheritance"
Wed, Apr 12
|Virtual Event
She’s the author of the award-winning 2018 book, A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica and co-editor of the 2014 book Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas.


Time & Location
Apr 12, 2023, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
About the event
Brooke Newman is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University specializing in early modern Britain and the Atlantic world. She’s the author of the award-winning…
Her research on the British monarchy and the history and legacies of slavery has appeared in Slate, Der Spiegel, The Washington Post, The Richmond Times Dispatch, i-news,…
Currently, she’s finishing her second book, The Queen’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery (Mariner), an examination into the little-known, centuries-long relationship between…