Brooke N. Newman
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Brooke Newman is an Associate 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 monarchy, with a research specialization in the history and legacies of slavery. Her books include: Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas (University of Nebraska Press, 2014); A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica (Yale University Press, 2018); and The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas (Mariner, 2026). Her essays have appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, i-news, and Scalawag Magazine, and her research on the Crown’s historical links to slavery has been featured by the BBC, NPR, PRX, Vox, the Jamaica Gleaner, Yahoo News, CBC, ABC, Time, Smithsonian Magazine, the Richmond Times Dispatch, Al Jazeera, and other outlets.
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