diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9d025019..baa4efd7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@
     "slate": "^0.21.0",
     "slate-edit-list": "^0.7.1",
     "slate-edit-table": "^0.10.1",
+    "slate-soft-break": "^0.3.0",
     "slug": "^0.9.1",
     "unified": "^6.1.4",
     "unist-builder": "^1.0.2",
diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/__tests__/__snapshots__/parser.spec.js.snap b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/__tests__/__snapshots__/parser.spec.js.snap
index 7d772fb1..341b42b3 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/__tests__/__snapshots__/parser.spec.js.snap
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/__tests__/__snapshots__/parser.spec.js.snap
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile a markdown ordered list 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile a markdown ordered list 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile bulleted lists 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile bulleted lists 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile code blocks 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile code blocks 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -183,28 +183,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile hard breaks (double space) 1`] = `
-Object {
-  "kind": "block",
-  "nodes": Array [
-    Object {
-      "kind": "block",
-      "nodes": Array [
-        Object {
-          "data": undefined,
-          "kind": "text",
-          "text": "blue moon  
-footballs",
-        },
-      ],
-      "type": "paragraph",
-    },
-  ],
-  "type": "root",
-}
-`;
-
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile horizontal rules 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile horizontal rules 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -241,7 +220,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile horizontal rules 2`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile horizontal rules 2`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -278,7 +257,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile images 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile images 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -298,7 +277,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile inline code 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile inline code 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -348,7 +327,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile kitchen sink example 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile kitchen sink example 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -1048,7 +1027,7 @@ not using the official implementation, and this might work subtly differently
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile links 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile links 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -1099,7 +1078,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile multiple header levels 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile multiple header levels 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -1141,7 +1120,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile nested inline markup 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile nested inline markup 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -1235,7 +1214,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile plugins 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile plugins 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -1266,7 +1245,7 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
-exports[`Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure should compile simple markdown 1`] = `
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile simple markdown 1`] = `
 Object {
   "kind": "block",
   "nodes": Array [
@@ -1296,3 +1275,34 @@ Object {
   "type": "root",
 }
 `;
+
+exports[`Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST should compile soft breaks (double space) 1`] = `
+Object {
+  "kind": "block",
+  "nodes": Array [
+    Object {
+      "kind": "block",
+      "nodes": Array [
+        Object {
+          "data": undefined,
+          "kind": "text",
+          "text": "blue moon",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "data": undefined,
+          "kind": "text",
+          "text": "
+",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "data": undefined,
+          "kind": "text",
+          "text": "footballs",
+        },
+      ],
+      "type": "paragraph",
+    },
+  ],
+  "type": "root",
+}
+`;
diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/__tests__/parser.spec.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/__tests__/parser.spec.js
index 9006c9ff..6700eacf 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/__tests__/parser.spec.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/__tests__/parser.spec.js
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ const testPlugins = fromJS([
 
 const parser = markdown => remarkToSlate(markdownToRemark(markdown));
 
-describe("Compile markdown to Prosemirror document structure", () => {
+describe("Compile markdown to Slate Raw AST", () => {
   it("should compile simple markdown", () => {
     const value = `
 # H1
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ blue moon
     expect(parser(value)).toMatchSnapshot();
   });
 
-  it("should compile hard breaks (double space)", () => {
+  it("should compile soft breaks (double space)", () => {
     const value = `
 blue moon  
 footballs
diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/plugins.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/plugins.js
index 308a403f..569c06ca 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/plugins.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/plugins.js
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import SlateSoftBreak from 'slate-soft-break';
 import EditList from 'slate-edit-list';
 import EditTable from 'slate-edit-table';
 
@@ -31,6 +32,8 @@ const SoftBreakOpts = {
 
 export const SoftBreakConfigured = SoftBreak(SoftBreakOpts);
 
+export const ParagraphSoftBreakConfigured = SlateSoftBreak({ onlyIn: ['paragraph'], shift: true });
+
 const BackspaceCloseBlock = (options = {}) => ({
   onKeyDown(e, data, state) {
     if (data.key != 'backspace') return;
@@ -82,6 +85,7 @@ export const EditTableConfigured = EditTable(EditTableOpts);
 
 const plugins = [
   SoftBreakConfigured,
+  ParagraphSoftBreakConfigured,
   BackspaceCloseBlockConfigured,
   EditListConfigured,
   EditTableConfigured,
diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/index.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/index.js
index 9fff5db6..f0d4dbdb 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/index.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/index.js
@@ -110,26 +110,11 @@ import registry from '../../../../lib/registry';
  * Deserialize a Markdown string to an MDAST.
  */
 export const markdownToRemark = markdown => {
-
-  /**
-   * Disabling tokenizers allows us to turn off features within the Remark
-   * parser.
-   */
-  function disableTokenizers() {
-
-    /**
-     * Turn off soft breaks until we can properly support them across both
-     * editors.
-     */
-    pull(this.Parser.prototype.inlineMethods, 'break');
-  }
-
   /**
    * Parse the Markdown string input to an MDAST.
    */
   const parsed = unified()
     .use(markdownToRemarkPlugin, { fences: true, pedantic: true, commonmark: true })
-    .use(disableTokenizers)
     .parse(markdown);
 
   /**
diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkSlate.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkSlate.js
index 321f0e89..c7673aa7 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkSlate.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkSlate.js
@@ -231,6 +231,16 @@ function convertNode(node, nodes) {
       return createBlock(slateType, nodes, { data });
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Breaks
+     *
+     * MDAST soft break nodes represent a trailing double space or trailing
+     * slash from a Markdown document. In Slate, these are simply transformed to
+     * line breaks within a text node.
+     */
+    case 'break': {
+      return createText('\n');
+    }
 
     /**
      * Thematic Breaks
diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/slateRemark.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/slateRemark.js
index 21853abc..b586cc81 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/slateRemark.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/slateRemark.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { get, isEmpty, concat, without, flatten } from 'lodash';
+import { get, isEmpty, concat, without, flatten, flatMap, initial } from 'lodash';
 import u from 'unist-builder';
 
 /**
@@ -56,6 +56,24 @@ function processCodeMark(markTypes) {
 }
 
 
+/**
+ * Returns an array of one or more MDAST text nodes of the given type, derived
+ * from the text received. Certain transformations, such as line breaks, cause
+ * multiple nodes to be returned.
+ */
+function createTextNodes(text, type = 'html') {
+  /**
+   * Split the text string at line breaks, then map each substring to an array
+   * pair consisting of an MDAST text node followed by a break node. This will
+   * result in nested arrays, so we use `flatMap` to produce a flattened array,
+   * and `initial` to leave off the superfluous trailing break.
+   */
+  const brokenText = text.split('\n');
+  const toPair = str => [u(type, str), u('break')];
+  return initial(flatMap(brokenText, toPair));
+}
+
+
 /**
  * Wraps a text node in one or more mark nodes by placing the text node in an
  * array and using that as the `children` value of a mark node. The resulting
@@ -130,7 +148,7 @@ function convertTextNode(node) {
    * MDAST node.
    */
   if (!node.ranges) {
-    return u('html', node.text);
+    return createTextNodes(node.text);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -154,13 +172,13 @@ function convertTextNode(node) {
     /**
      * Create the base text node.
      */
-    const textNode = u(textNodeType, text);
+    const textNodes = createTextNodes(text, textNodeType);
 
     /**
      * Recursively wrap the base text node in the individual mark nodes, if
      * any exist.
      */
-    return wrapTextWithMarks(textNode, filteredMarkTypes);
+    return textNodes.map(textNode => wrapTextWithMarks(textNode, filteredMarkTypes));
   });
 
   /**
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 4aa24746..f2869818 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -7844,6 +7844,10 @@ slate-edit-table@^0.10.1:
   dependencies:
     immutable "^3.8.1"
 
+slate-soft-break@^0.3.0:
+  version "0.3.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/slate-soft-break/-/slate-soft-break-0.3.0.tgz#3d28dea9e0aa4783ddcea785ff5db7277214d65f"
+
 slate@^0.21.0:
   version "0.21.4"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/slate/-/slate-0.21.4.tgz#ae6113379cd838b7ec68ecd94834ce9741bc36f3"