Dr. Brooke Newman is a historian of early modern Britain and the British Atlantic, with current special interest in the history of slavery, the abolition movement, and the British royal family. Currently, she is a Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University.Newman co-edited the textbook "Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas," which was pubished in 2014. Her first book, "A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica," was published in 2018 and received the Gold Medal for World History in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards.Newman received her B.A. in History and English from Texas State University and her Ph.D. in Early Modern Britain & the British Atlantic from the University of California Davis.