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The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti

Paperback

Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book

19th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 1469692090
ISBN13: 9781469692098
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Aug 1 2025
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. Johnson never freed Chinn, but during his frequent absences from his estate, he delegated to her the management of his property, including Choctaw Academy, a boarding school for Indigenous men and boys. This meant that Chinn had substantial control over economic, social, financial, and personal affairs within the couple's world, including overseeing Blue Spring's enslaved labor force. Chinn's relationship with Johnson was unlikely a consensual one since she was never manumitted.

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