The Vice President’s Black Wife

The Vice President's Black Wife: Julia Chinn and the Story of Black Women's Labor: a Conversation with Amrita Myers

Join us for a conversation with Amrita Chakrabarti Myers about the interconnectedness of sex, gender, class, and economics during the antebellum period. Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard M. Johnson, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren.

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