Dr. Brooke Newman : Author of "The Crown's Silence".

Dr. Brooke Newman is a professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is an award-winning historian of early modern Britain and the British Atlantic, with a research specialization in the history and legacies of slavery. Dr. Newman is the author of "The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas" (Mariner, 2026) and "A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica" (Yale University Press, 2018), as well as the co-editor of "Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas" (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). Her essays have appeared in The Guardian, Slate, Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, i-news, and Scalawag Magazine, and her research on the Crown’s historical links to slavery has been featured in the New Yorker, BBC, NPR, PRX, Vox, the Jamaica Gleaner, Yahoo News, CBC, ABC, Time, the Richmond Times Dispatch, and other…