Julia Chinn
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Julia Chinn was an American plantation manager and enslaved woman of "mixed race", who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson.
Excerpt of portrait purportedly caricaturing Chinn, depicting her as African
"An affecting scene in Kentucky" – racist cartoon by Henry R. Robinson depicting Johnson, Chinn, and their daughters in which racial characteristics of the women are overemphasized
Richard Mentor Johnson
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Richard Mentor Johnson was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the ninth vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841 under President Martin Van Buren. He is th
Julia Chinn
…octoroon" of seven-eighths European and one-eighth African ancestry), who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson. Chinn was born in Scott County, Kentucky, to a woman enslaved by the Johnson family. Her exact date of birth is unknown, according to historian Amrita…
Portrait c. 1843
The women of Bryan's Station draw water while the enemy looks on
Nathaniel Currier's lithograph (c. 1846) is one of many images that portrayed Johnson as Tecumseh's killer.