The Crown’s Silence: Dr. Brooke Newman on the British Monarchy and Slavery

This week, we’re joined by historian Dr. Brooke Newman, author of the new book THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery. The book traces the British monarchy’s long, deliberate entanglement with slavery in the Americas, and Dr. Newman walks us through what the historical record demonstrates: royal investments and strategic silence helped build and sustain a transatlantic slave system for centuries.

Until now, that history has been carefully obscured by comforting national myths. But with newly unearthed historical documentation, how much longer can the monarchy put off reckoning with the legacy of a harmful system it actively created?

Dr. Newman brings a rare combination of rigor, clarity, and generosity to this often-obscured subject. You won’t want to miss THE CROWN’S SILENCE, available now wherever you buy books! https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-crowns-silence-brooke-n-newman?variant=43822878130210

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