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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers The Vice President's Black Wife (Hardback). Author: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers. Title: The Vice President's Black Wife. When the family left their farm, they faced steep limits: pews at the rear of church, burial in separate graveyards, exclusion from town dances, and more. Further DetailsTitle: The Vice President's Black Wife Condition: New Format: Hardback Subtitle: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn Author: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers ISBN-10: 1469675234 EAN: 9781469675237 ISBN: 9781469675237 Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Release Date: 10/10/2023 Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences, History Description: 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 management of his property, including Choctaw Academy, a boarding school for Indigenous men and boys. This meant that Chinn, while enslaved, 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. What makes Chinn's life exceptional is the power that Johnson invested in her, the opportunities the couple's relationship afforded her and her daughters, and their community's tacit acceptance of the family—up to a point. When the family left their farm, they faced steep limits: pews at the rear of church, burial in separate graveyards, exclusion from town dances, and more. Outliving Chinn, Johnson was ruined politically by his relationship with her, and Myers compellingly demonstrates that it wasn't interracial sex that led to his downfall but his refusal to keep it—and Julia Chinn—behind closed doors. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 235mm Item Length: 155mm Series: Ferris and Ferris Book Type: Ethnography Release Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
