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 mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Va...
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press
[2023]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- ‡g Preface : ‡t Searching for Julia: July 28, 2015
- ‡g Introduction : ‡t Telling stories
- ‡g Chapter 1 : ‡t Beginnings: Bluegrass and Black salves
- ‡g Chapter 2 : ‡t Mistress of the parlor: The Black woman of Blue Spring
- ‡g Chapter 3 : ‡t Campus conflicts: Racial collisions at Choctaw Academy
- ‡g Chapter 4 : ‡t Disorderly communion: The Johnsons go to church
- ‡g Chapter 5 : ‡t Town talk: Locals draw the line
- ‡g Chapter 6 : ‡t Affairs of state: The Nation speaks of sex
- ‡g Chapter 7 : ‡t End of days: Privilege, property, and passing(s)
- ‡g Epilogue : ‡t Past meets present: History and memory
- ‡g Postscript : ‡t The search for Julia, redux