Author Event: Brooke Newman's The Crown's Silence

Award-winning historian of early modern Britain and the British monarchy Brooke Newman will discuss her most recent book The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas. The Crown's Silence tells the shocking untold story of the British royal family's centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy and culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the United States. As an associate professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and fellow of the Royal Historical Society, one of Brooke's research specializations is in the history and legacies of slavery. Books will be available for signing and purchase. Sponsored by the Friends of HCPL.