The Crown's Silence

Brooke N. Newman is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is the author of the award-winning and critically acclaimed A DARK INHERITANCE: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica, (Yale University Press, 2018) and co-editor of NATIVE DIASPORAS: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). Her scholarship focuses on race, gender, and slavery in the colonial British Atlantic, and her writing and research have appeared in Slate, the Washington Post, Der Spiegel, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other publications.