Brooke N NewmanBrooke N. Newman is an award-winning historian at Virginia Commonwealth University and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her previous book, A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica, was a finalis for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the American Philosophical Society, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, the Gilder Lehrman Center, and many others. Her essays have appeared in Slate, the Washington Post, The Guardian, and others, and her research has been featured in such outlets as the BBC, NPR, Vox, and Smithsonian Magazine. She lives in Richmond, Virginia. Read More Read Less