Spark Email Verification (Laravel 5.7* + Spark 7.1*)

I'm trying to implement the new email verification feature introduced in Laravel 5.7.

I'm running Spark 7.1.1 which supports the new verification feature, and have followed the instructions as described in the Spark docs:

https://spark.laravel.com/docs/7.0/email-verification

Though I still can't get this to work. Running php artisan migrate returns nothing; there is nothing to migrate, and I don't see any email_verified_at column in the users table.

The docs instruct us to add Spark::ensureEmailIsVerified(); to the register method of the SparkServiceProvider.

I have done this, but I'm still getting nothing; no verification email sent to the user and no verifcation firewall within the app.

Any ideas?