The vice president's black wife : the untold life of julia chinn

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved 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...

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Main Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
Format: EBOOK
Other Format: BOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2023
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