The Vice President's Black Wife by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/25929to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vice President's Black Wife Author: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins Release date: 01-14-25 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Americas Publisher's Summary: 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 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 on the grounds of the estate.

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