The Crown’s Silence

“Diligent, forensic and surprising, The Crown’s Silence is a book that will provoke many necessary and overdue conversations.” – Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

“At last! A comprehensive yet forensic study of the royal family’s slavery involvement. In response to Brooke N. Newman’s groundbreaking new book, the royals should use their global platform to promote better public knowledge of the slavery system and its legacies.” – Professor Corinne Fowler, author of The Countryside: Ten Walks Through Rural Britain and its Hidden History of Empire

“Brooke Newman’s meticulously sourced and gripping book puts the British Royal Family’s sanction and investment in the transatlantic slave trade in full view. Important, timely, and fascinating on every page, she asks the pressing question: will King Charles III become the first British monarch to break the Crown’s silence on this troubling history?” – Laura Trevelyan, journalist and Honorary Fellow at the University of the West Indies’ PJ Patterson Institute

“Brooke Newman has written a brave, brilliant, and essential book, telling truths that many will not want to hear. I hope The Crown’s Silence will inspire investigations of other maritime monarchies as we reckon with the still-deadly legacies of human bondage.” – Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History

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.