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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk With Dr. Brooke Newman | The Crown's Silence
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free talk by historian Dr. Brooke Newman on her 
 latest book\, “The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British 
 Monarchy and Slavery.” The book uncovers the British monarchy’s deep 
 entanglement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery\, which 
 includes King Charles III’s direct ancestor Edward Porteus\, an enslaver 
 who owned a tobacco plantation in Virginia. \n\nNewman recounts how\, for 
 centuries\, Britain has told itself and the world that it is an 
 abolitionist nation\, one that\, unlike the United States\, rejected human 
 bondage and dismantled its Atlantic slave empire without tearing itself 
 apart in violence. It presented itself as an abolitionist nation headed by 
 a just\, humane monarch who liberated enslaved Africans and recognized 
 their descendants as free and equal subjects of the British Crown. Ranging 
 from the Tudor era to the reign of Queen Victoria\, she shows how 
 successive monarchs invested in\, profited from and defended an imperial 
 system built on racial slavery — and how the Crown’s silence continues 
 to shape public memory to this day.  \n\nThis event is part of the 
 Library’s programming commemorating Virginia's role in the 250th 
 anniversary of American independence.\n\nNewman is an associate professor 
 of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and a fellow of the Royal 
 Historical Society. She specializes in the history of early modern Britain 
 and the British Atlantic\, with a focus on slavery and its legacies. 
 \n\nThis is a free event\, but registration is required. For more 
 information\, contact education@lva.virginia.gov
ORGANIZER;CN="Anne McCrery":MAILTO:anne.mccrery@lva.virginia.gov
CATEGORIES:Book Talk | Lecture, Featured, VA250
CONTACT;CN="Anne McCrery":MAILTO:anne.mccrery@lva.virginia.gov
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